udrabo

You are right! I read earlier that preview was based on Affinity interpreted PDF render, but this is true to original albeit rendered to pixel graphic. I guess it was changed – maybe for the better.

There are a lot of things to do. I know Serif has to weigh what to do first. For me it is THE most important and essential functionality I need. Please Serif, tell us if and when we can expect pdf passthrough.

@Lane That does not solve the problem ... it's a workaroud (as is saving your PDF as high-res JPG or TIF), but is not practical when you need to process a lot of PDF documents from various sources, e.g. adverts, barcodes, logos, drawings, graphs, tables, forms and many other small ,elements' in a magazine, book, catalogue or even on a poster (think "band logo" or "sponsor messages" for the poster example) or assemble a new layout out of several PDFs.
Placing and passing through a PDF "as is" is the de-facto standard in the design and publishing industry for this, because PDF is an exchange format invented for exactly this use case (among other reasons). Requiring ANY other steps is simply not acceptable.
In my opinion, the best solution for this would be to have PDF pass-through in Publisher and render PDFs for editing when opening them with Designer or using the Designer Persona in Publisher – this gives the user a choice and also makes for a good distinction between the two applications.
If Serif needs to purchase licenses for PDF passthrough from a third party and implement them in Publisher (just one app, not all three), I am happy to pay a couple of Pounds or Dollars or Euros extra or even buy it as an add-on or plugin. But again: For ANY professional DTP and Layout application this feature is an absolute MUST.
 

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As I have posted on multiple threads
"The sooner Serif sort the pdf passthrough the sooner we can start to use Affinity Publisher, as at the moment it is just easier (although we would like to change) to use indesign." 

When PDF Passthrough arrives I will throw a street party in honour of the Serif gods.

I usually open PDFs in Acrobat (you can still buy Acrobat Pro 2017 as a one-off on amazon, good for this and for a lot of prepress tasks) and save them as high-res image -- that is not ideal, but saves me a lot of headaches.
PDF pass-through (pushing the original PDF through rather than rendering), if not for Designer at least for Publisher, has been asked for a lot and I'm sure the developers are aware that it's needed for any professional workflow. Let's use workarounds and keep our fingers crossed that it's in the pipeline.

Please, add a feature which will allow us to save multiple Find/Replace commands as sets.
It will allow us to save sets that will replace dull tasks like replacing spaces/TABs at the beggining/end of a paragraph, removing double spaces, converting 3 dots into elipses...
BTW, you should add "Repeat Find/Replace until nothing found" option in "Replace" dialog.

The request was not for regex-based Find/Replace, which already exists.
It was for defining Text Styles based on regular expressions, which would (I believe) allow you to say "whenever I create text content that matches <some regular expressions> assign <some style name> to it automatically".

hopefully serfi will also give a choice for placing PSD-Files with fonts in it. at this time we cant import PSD-Files without substituting missing fonts :-(

Thank you for pointing that out, becreart! That’s exactly what I wish to have!

That’s why I posted this suggestion …  
I want to push this topic because it is VERY essential for lots of people.

A big problem for me is the fact, that I cannot place PDFs in APub with embedded fonts that are not installed on my computer. Well, I can place them but they don’t look like they should, because the missing fonts were replaced!
In a magazine I have to place a minimum of 70 ads that I get as PDFs from multiple customers. I only have to place them onto my pages within the editorial content. And they have to be ‚as they are‘ when it comes to printing. It’s not possible to tell all the customers: "Please give me all the fonts you have used"!
So please make it possible to use PDFs the common way: Put a PDF on a layout as it is, whether the fonts used in it are installed or not. 
Kindest regards
Udo

I thought this too. I think it’s caused in the approach of handling pdf as quasi exchange format (You can open PDFs coming from other programs like InDesign).
They should provide both ways: passthrough and editable.

Absolutely!

That’s why I posted this suggestion …  
I want to push this topic because it is VERY essential for lots of people.

I agree for editing the PDF: Then the font has to be installed! But placing a PDF ‚as is‘ for later printing is not against licensing conditions! Otherwise QuarkXPress, InDesign and others could not do that.

Thank you for pointing that out, becreart! That’s exactly what I wish to have!

A big problem for me is the fact, that I cannot place PDFs in APub with embedded fonts that are not installed on my computer. Well, I can place them but they don’t look like they should, because the missing fonts were replaced!
In a magazine I have to place a minimum of 70 ads that I get as PDFs from multiple customers. I only have to place them onto my pages within the editorial content. And they have to be ‚as they are‘ when it comes to printing. It’s not possible to tell all the customers: "Please give me all the fonts you have used"!
So please make it possible to use PDFs the common way: Put a PDF on a layout as it is, whether the fonts used in it are installed or not. 
Kindest regards
Udo

as udrabo mentioned, converting fonts to curves is  no good idea. also in colormangement and in trapping fonts are handled in most RIPs somehow different than vectorelements.

When text is converted to curves, the so called „hinting“ isn‘t preserved. „Hinting“ is a font intern, slight modification of the outlines, according to their output resolution. In other words: Printing in lower resolution produces a slightly different font appearance compared to higher resolution outputs. This is quite important for print results on laser printers or digital printing machines, which normally work with much lower resolution as offset machines do.
Therefore converting fonts to outline normally isn‘t a recommendable option.
Further information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting

Quite sure. I don’t know if I can explain that very well in English. Where in a character of a typeface two lines meet , there is in a good designed typeface an little white space wedge (Don’t know if in English it’s called like that …) The reason is legibility—especially with regard to smaller type sizes. Unfortunately some tools don’t respect these wedges by converting to curves. And that makes the typeface looking like it was bolder.

Thank you Pauls for your suggestion. In the meantime I have found the troublemaker. FontExplorer X Pro showed a bunch of problems with fonts. Clearing system and application font caches did not solve the problem. So last night I went the hard way and made a new clean install – and this time without FontExplorer letting compose the fonts and settings for the transfer to the new installed OS.
And … tataaah … in Germany we say "Das Problem ist jetzt Geschichte" (literally translated "The problem now is history") …
The only thing left is to finish my configuration of the mac without causing this or similar problems again. 

An ‘ink trap’, that little wedge.

That’s why I posted this suggestion …  
I want to push this topic because it is VERY essential for lots of people.