Publisher imports most text as curves

[DanD]

I've previously created some files using Adobe Creative Express. I've exported as pdf and I was hoping that the majority of the text would be editable with Affinity Publisher (mac desktop). However the majority seems to be showing as curve elements instead so I cannot modify.

I was hoping to make use of Publisher to take these templates and use data merge to update the text elements from a spreadsheet.

I have the fonts installed, Publisher does not complain about any missing fonts when opening the pdf.

Any hits or tips for making getting the text within the pdf to be recognised as such, I've attached an example in which I think all the text on the page just imports as curves.

Thanks

example.pdf

[thomaso]

35 minutes ago, DanD said:

I was hoping that the majority of the text would be editable with Affinity Publisher (mac desktop). However the majority seems to be showing as curve elements

If text gets exported as curves only then no application can edit it afterwards as text.
What do you mean with "majority"? To me the PDF doesn't contain any text but letters as curves only.

I don't know this "Express" version but possibly it exports as curves only by default with the goal to avoid later violence of legal rights of fonts.

[David in Яuislip]

If you open the file in a pdf reader then none of the 'text' is selectable so it isn't text.

The Publisher warning could do with some improvement though as there are no fonts in the file

[DanD]

Thanks for the responses,  I do have other pdf's i've created in adobe creative cloud express where more the of the text is picked up as a text element when importing to publisher. It is a bit hit and miss, but sounds like this could be font dependent, or an inconsistency in adobe creative cloud rather than publisher.

[thomaso]

7 hours ago, DanD said:

could be font dependent, or an inconsistency in adobe creative cloud

... or there is an export option for converting text to curves during export?
(as it is in other apps like their non-"Express" versions and the Affinity apps)