Text frame multiline behavior in PDF export

[Mike Nosal]

I've found an issue related to Text Frame export to PDF support between Publisher and Designer (Mac/2.5.7).

In Affinity Designer, create a text frame and enter enough text so that it wraps inside the box on to multiple lines.
Export from Designer to PDF.

When I open the PDF and use a screen reader (Apple VoiceOver) to read the contents of the PDF, it reads the text box as one complete sentence.

Open the same document in Publisher and export to PDF. 
The exported PDF looks the same, but now the screen reader sees the contents of the text frame as separate lines.

This makes the PDF much worse for accessibility as it forces the user to navigate line by line, while the PDF exported by Designer is read as a single block.

Is there a way to force Publisher to export those multi-line text frames as one block the way Designer does?

[R C-R]

What export options are you using in each of the two Affinity apps? Are they all identical?

[Mike Nosal]

Export settings were the same between the two apps. I've tried multiple presets on Publisher but none of them seem to solve this issue. Likewise, choosing different PDF presets in Designer doesn't seem to alter its behavior either. 

This occurs if I create the text frame in a Designer .afdesign file and open and export it from Publisher, or if I create a new document in Publisher and add the frame text there. 

[Lee D]

@Mike Nosal Thank for the report. I've replicated the issue using the same PDF export in Designer and Publisher and then opening the PDF in Apple Preview and using Apple VoiceOver.

I've logged this with the developers to look into further.