PDF import- Text Moves

[cjfiscus]

I'm having a problem where text in pdf documents moves when imported into Affinity Designer (see screenshots). The issue seems to be especially bad with negative numbers or when digits have decimals before them. I have attempted selecting and deselecting the "Favor editable text over fidelity" and "Group lines of text into text frames" options and it does not seem to make a difference. Also, when importing the file, Designer tells me that the fonts used by the document are available. 

 

Is there a way to import a PDF document without the text shifting? I use Designer primarily to make small tweaks to figures and this issue makes using Designer extremely tedious as I have to fix the position of all text before exporting the document. 

 

For reference, running Affinity Designer 1.8.3 on macOS 10.15.5.

[benwiggy]

The Affinity suite 'doesn't support import of PDFs with embedded fonts'. Sadly, you can expect problems of this sort. The workarounds are:
 

• outline the text to curves in the PDF before importing;
• convert to EPS, whose embedded fonts for some reason Affinity can import.

 

[Pšenda]

... or install this font to your PC. 

[cjfiscus]

On 7/25/2020 at 4:10 AM, Pšenda said:

... or install this font to your PC. 

As far as I know the font is already installed on the system. This is a graphic created with statistical software R. 

 

[cjfiscus]

On 7/25/2020 at 1:18 AM, benwiggy said:

The Affinity suite 'doesn't support import of PDFs with embedded fonts'. Sadly, you can expect problems of this sort. The workarounds are:
 

• outline the text to curves in the PDF before importing;
• convert to EPS, whose embedded fonts for some reason Affinity can import.

 

This is unfortunate. I ended up exporting to svg instead and then loading that format into Affinity instead. Since I need print resolution I then changed resolution to 300 dpi on export back to pdf but not sure if it's truly 300 dpi then? 

[benwiggy]

Hopefully, everything has stayed as vector data, so resolution should be irrelevant. But if there are any bitmap images in the PDF, then yes, 300 dpi should hold.