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Hi, I'm using Affinity Publisher both on Mac and Pc. I have this problem: when I want to place a PDF as if it was an image, Publisher tries to interpret it, and sometime it modifies its content. If I want to edit a PDF it is supposed to open it directly from the "Open File" function in the upper menu, or to edit it in Affinity Designer. Anyway this is not the point. The point is that if I only want to place a PDF as image, without editing it, I can't do it (I'm sorry, because I know that I'm comparing Affinity Publisher to Adobe InDesign). I'm working with PDFs made in other countries all around the word. They are edited in Word and exported into PDF. They use different languages and fonts, as arabic, chinese, or other. I've asked them to give me only PDFs, so that I will not have the need edit or modify them (without the need to install their fonts into my systems). When I was in Indesign I could place the PDF with foreign texts into my file and then export it to a PDF for the printer. Now, with Publisher I can't, because it changes the appearing of the PDF, interpreting the content in a wrong way. I attach here the original PDF, then the same file placed into Indesign and exported again into PDF, then the original file placed into Publisher and exported in PDF again, so that you can compare them. Am I doing something wrong in my pipeline? Is there a way to avoid this problem? Thank you, Beniamino File Placed Into Publisher and Exported again into PDF.pdf File Placed Into Indesign and Exported again into PDF.pdf Original File.pdf