I've been using Publisher for several months and love the product. However, one issue that has plagued me since day 1 is the inability to export documents as PDF while preserving transparency. In this particular case, I'm working on a document that is white-only on a transparent background, which is going to be used for screen printing on a colored t-shirt. I've tried exporting using a variety of PDF settings under "More" but none produces a transparent background. The document inevitably comes out just as a white square. This is both how the screen printing company sees it, and also how Affinity Publisher sees it when I attempt to re-open the PDF directly in Publisher.
Publisher will see the layers when reimporting the PDF, but sees a white background.
When I do a similar task in Pixelmator Pro (for instance), the transparency is preserved as expected. This definitely appears to be something wrong with Publisher (or my lack of knowledge of how to do this seemingly basic task).