Importing PDFs into Publisher, Designer or Photo for Editing removes Shop Shadows

[Graphics Chris]

Does anyone know why importing PDFs that contain drop-shadows, removes these drop-shadows when imported.  I seem to get this on all three applications and all PDF artwork that contains a drop-shadow.  The only fix I have found is to go into the layers, find the component that needs the drop-shadow and manually apply the drop-shadow.

This is time consuming and not accurate as you basically have to eye the PDF and make a guess as to what properties the drop-shadow requires to get it to look as close as possible to the original.

I work at a Print Shop and quite often have client's artwork that is only supplied as a PDF and when edits are required I need to import it into affinity to makes those required edits.  When importing, I found everything else seems to behave correctly, except for drop-shadows.  For some reason these do not want to appear at all.  I have even looked for them in the layers in-case they have been tucked behind or some other setting is not allowing them to be seen, but it appears that the drop-shadow element is just not present.

Any help on this would be very much appreciated, as this is an ongoing thorn in my side.

[Seneca]

2 hours ago, Graphics Chris said:

Does anyone know why importing PDFs that contain drop-shadows, removes these drop-shadows when imported.

Does this happen even if you select Pass-Through option?

[Graphics Chris]

I am not sure what you mean by selecting Pass-Through option.  Can you please explain?