RomanLZ

Thank you! It works! Now all I have to do is relearn Affinity Designer.... Seriously, thanks again. That's very helpful. Roman

Exactly right. I don't want or need to edit PDF files, I've already done that in LaTeX, which does mathematics brilliantly. But if I want to do a picture, I also need to use a graphics program, and insert little PDF files containing the mathematical symbols. If Affinity Designer insists on trying to open those little PDF files for editing, and fails, then I'm afraid I'll just have to use something else. Roman

Thank you AdamW. I've tried following your suggestions. After a couple of hours of looking around on the web I failed to find any fonts which helped. Perhaps they're the right fonts, but need renaming. I've also spend a couple of hours looking at various discussion sites, but it's all too technical for me. So I think I'm going to have to give up. I thought a .pdf file was supposed to be portable in the sense that it contains all the information needed by software and hardware to produce an image. It works in other applications, so I think I'll have to use them instead. Sorry to end on a negative note at this time of year. Happy Xmas everyone! Roman

Dear Ruby Fu I totally agree! I've just bought Affinity Designer on the advice of a friend, and yes, it seems very nice, but.... ... I can't drag-and-drop PDF snippets generated by LaTeXiT. Same problem as you. This is very important as I need to label bits of the picture with same mathematical symbols as in the LaTeX document which I am writing. There isn't any trouble using LaTeXit and drag-and-drop with the competing Eazydraw software, but I would much prefer Affinity Designer if it can be made to work. I can also make LaTeXit work with Keynote, and it worked with my legacy copy of InDesign --- until I upgraded to macOS High Sierra, whereupon my InDesign CS4 stopped working, which is why I am looking for a new --- and affordable! --- graphics programme. I suspect the problem is that Affinity Designer wants to be able to edit what's inside the PDF snippet, and it can't. There's no need for it to do so, of course. Just moving it around, resizing, and rotating, would do very nicely. So please, Affinity people, when can we look forward to a fix? Best wishes Roman