We open a lot of Illustrator files in Affinity Designer. Normally this works great.
Now we have an Illustrator file where the text will not load into AD. There is not a single text block loaded in the document. Not even missing fonts.
When we export to PDF from Illustrator and open the PDF in Edge or Adobe Reader the text is displayed perfectly. When importing that PDF into AD everything disappears again.
When I use Ghostscript to convert the AI to PDF the PDF is also displayed ok in the browser or Adobe Reader. When opening in AD I get some missing fonts. When I replace them with another font the text loaded is gibberish. It seems like the wrong encoding or something.
Also when copying the text from the pdf, the same thing occurs.
issue.ai
illustrator-exported.pdf
ghostscript-converted.pdf