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See several other threads on the same subject: AD can’t handle embedded fonts in PDFs, it tries to replace them with active fonts. That’s against the intention of PDF and a severe shortcoming, but known.

I didn’t see this subject while browsing the first 10 pages of forum entries, so this might be something I do wrong... If I select a paragraph style and then paste text without format, it gets some different format. If I assign a paragraph style (just clicking on the style name), it gets added to the current format instead of replacing it; I always need to select "apply to paragraphs and remove character style" (don’t know the wording in English) even if there was no character style applied — that’s very annoying! Can I somehow change this behaviour?

I think you can’t expect those very old 8 bit PostScript fonts to work with a modern application – even if it would be nice. As far as I know the different font technologies from TeX, you need a mapping of Type 1 encoding vectors to Unicode – OTF and not-too-old TTF fonts have their characters defined according to Unicode, but in PostScript the encoding depends on local settings to match those of the font. While some programs can handle those old fonts, especially if they stem from the 8 bit era themselves, I can’t blame modern programs to avoid that hassle of supporting outdated technology.

Yes, it contradicts the intent of PDFs, but it’s the state of Affinity software: It can’t just place PDFs with embedded fonts, but tries to interprete and replace them. You can call it a known bug.

Not sure if that’s the same problem, but if I press backspace in a text frame, Publisher changes the paragraph style. Forward delete works. I didn’t (and would never) redefine backspace in keyboard shortcuts and couldn’t find anything there that would match this behaviour. (This is Affinity Publisher 1.7.3 on macOS 10.14.6.)

The Unicode standard says: Since the left-pointing guillemets/chevrons are “usually” opening, I can live with them called “left” even in German. But I’d also like to be able to define my own sets of quotation marks. BTW “guillemots” are sea birds, not quotation marks, even if Adobe used that word in their “standard”. Another related issue: In InDesign I could replace " by " and get typographical quotation marks according to the current settings. I used that feature very often to normalize the articles in my projects.

Same issue: It’s impossible to use PDFs with embedded fonts, e.g. ads. Trying to design a magazine with customer delivered ads, this is a nightmare and a complete no-go for a professional layout application. These PDFs are completely ok and proofed, and converting everything to pixels is not an option!