h_d

Following on from my previous rather flippant remark.
I would just repeat, in all seriousness, that you should not be embarking on this work unless you are being properly paid for it and unless you have the skills and knowledge to accomplish it. If you don't, then I hope you have the strength to tell whoever asked you to do it that you will need more help/training/support.
You should not expect Affinity Publisher to offer an immediate solution. First and foremost it is not a pdf editor or a data management tool. But it goes deeper than that.
As far as I can see you are being expected to unpick someone else's laborious work and to recast it into another format.
In my opinion you should first be looking at ways of extracting, categorising and structuring the original information into a database or a format like .xml.
Once you have control of the structured data, then you can present it in any number of ways. Affinity Publisher may be helpful then. 
But what you cannot do is take .pdfs, or Word docs, or any sort of pre-formatted text of this complexity, and expect Publisher to sort it out for you.
It can not.
Publisher is a desktop publishing application. It is a page layout tool, not a data management tool. 
Again, and with all respect, control the data before you start on the presentation.
 

Draw the shape with the Pen tool in Polygon Mode, close the shape then Layer - Convert to Text Frame. You can adjust the nodes of the text frame using Node Tool.

A lot. 😀

h_d, I just downloaded Adobe Acrobat and it does work for me, too.
I will suggest that option for those who receive my pdf.
I couldn't find a way to turn off the telephone number pop-up in Preview either.
I have been working all day on this problem that has been puzzling me.
h_d, you have been very helpful.

In macOS Preview you can ctrl-click on the number and then choose Copy from the contextual menu:

I have tried Acrobat Reader for Apple Mac with my test pdf and it doesn't display a phone number popup. 

MacOS Preview. It's clever like that. Not an Affinity thing.
 

Or do you mean something like this:
 

 
I drew the L shape with the Pen Tool in Polygon Mode, then adjusted the text wrap using Text - Text Wrap - Edit Text Wrap Settings.

Also make sure that you have selected the layer that you want to cut from. 

Screen Recording 2023-02-07 at 20.53.22.mov    
(I rasterised my original Rectangle layer to turn it into a Pixel layer.)

It's because of the Blend Ranges, which for both layers are set this way:

Thanks "NotMyFault" and Old Bruce for your quick responses. The bottom line seems to be that I have to play with, test, gamble with, and otherwise learn more about Affinity Photo. Thanks a bunch 🧐

@Gregoir
You don't say what format the iPhone images are. If they're .heic rather than .jpeg, then it would make a certain amount of sense because both .cr3 and .heic images use QuickTime format. And the QuickTime specification for integer-format times is UTC rather than local time.
I'm not sure how that squares with your time zone/daylight savings settings, but I think it's possible that Affinity Photo isn't accounting for them correctly.
All the gory details are at the ExifTool QuickTime Tags page.

You can get a 30-day free unlimited trial of Publisher (all functionality) if you scroll to the bottom of this page.

Good evening,
Personally I wouldn't rely on accurate conversion of pre-formatted text from Word.
I would paste the text into a plain-text editor, remove any and all formatting, copy and paste into Affinity and apply all the character and paragraph styles there. That way you know you're getting what you want.
(I'd also use Publisher rather than Designer for a newsletter, but that's up to you...)

What I meant was that the original shape (in Pages) and the new shape (in Publisher) don't have to be the same width: justified text copies and pastes from one to the other without any spacing issues.
Original text in a Pages text frame:

 
The text from Pages copied and pasted into Publisher:

Just use paste as plain text.

Good evening,
Personally I wouldn't rely on accurate conversion of pre-formatted text from Word.
I would paste the text into a plain-text editor, remove any and all formatting, copy and paste into Affinity and apply all the character and paragraph styles there. That way you know you're getting what you want.
(I'd also use Publisher rather than Designer for a newsletter, but that's up to you...)

No worries, hope my first suggestion makes your workflow easier.

Sorry about that. I was actually able to figure it out using h_d's message above. My Studio was hidden, and I just had to uncheck it. The trick was finding it. 
Thanks for the replies! I appreciate it. 

Yes, exactly. Thanks.

There was a mistake in my question I use Publisher 2 not Designer, sorry for may mistake

A mask! That's the answer. Thanks so much.
There's still so much I don't know about this program, even after using it a lot for a year.
 

Deselect to remove the pixel selection, then click on the HSL Shift Adjustment layer and paint on it in black or white. (It's a mask.)

No, I'm not asking how to add mail merge fields, I was asking how to access the mail merge LAYOUT feature, but couldn't find anything on how to do that without the data source. I have figured it out now though and YES, you can indeed create the mail merge template ready for the fields to be placed later using the mail merge layout without a data set. thank you anyway. 
 

Wouldn't we all? 😋