People looking to their problem as if it is not solvable without importer/convertor. In this case, it seems a feedback loop we are in. Also for myself as also for Serif, a PagePlus importer/convertor is not on my list too. My suggestion didn't work out and I admit that. At the end of the day, I have to make the job done. When I have a problem or something which doesn't work as expected, in whatever application, I always look for a way around the problem. I experimented for some time with the method I suggested and it is simply impossible to get good results with that workaround. It may have been for good commercial or technical reasons, but it is a decision that is alienating a significant user base. It cannot be a good or probably workable way to import anything more complicated than a leaflet with four pages - if that.
The text turns out, if I transfer to a word processor, to be in single line paragraphs, which is not helpful, and formatted (ie lengths) as in the pdf file. What would be the point of creating new documents? At present AP is NOT as good by a country mile, and I have tried to import a PDF file to recreate a document. You also overlook the fact that at some point in the future we now know that PP will cease to function with Serif's deliberate policies and external influences. You forget the truism that says that every complainant tells ten people, whereas the same is far from true for satisfied customers. Patrick, this may or may not be true, but whereas I have frequently recommended Serif as a company in the past, I now will only do so if trust can be rebuilt. The end result will be a buggy slow application. Lets say for example Affinity Publisher was to support page+, when does it get to stop supporting it? As has been mentioned earlier there are objects in page+ which do not map to Affinity Publisher, the only way to map them in is to add to affinity publishers code base and only because of windows users who want to press a button and import an alien file format.
If you don't care to install windows on a mac, (it does work quite well in a VM to be fair) run Windows on a PC.
Serif never made page plus for the Mac and never said they would. That’s good advice in general, but it doesn’t help users who, having switched to a Mac from a Windows PC, want to avoid the trouble and expense of installing Windows on the Mac. We already have a situation where later versions of PagePlus introduced new objects that earlier versions can’t read, but recent versions can mostly open files saved from later versions and simply discard what they don’t understand I believe an exception to this is opening X9 files in X5, which doesn’t seem to work at all. I imagine that most users pushing for a native PagePlus file importer wouldn’t expect it to work 100%.