The text file saved from Text Wrangler can be used in a data merge. ... View more

I suspect the OP may believe the drop shadows are flattened due to print results. The sample does involve spot colors and transparency, which can appear on certain desktop printers with the discolored area around transparent elements, resembling stitched flattened art. ... View more

The tool fourth down on the left is currently your Convert Direction Point Tool, select it and scroll up to activate the Pen Tool. ... View more

Unless I am missing something, your sample PDF contains live transparency, and the art is not flattened. ... View more

Here's the screen shot, One note, this option will duplicate the form fields, but not the labels that appear to the left. I would suggest have the labels in place and duplicated in the merge process. ... View more

How have you determined the art is flattened with the above export setting? Can you share the PDF? ... View more

The half circle bullet could be handled with a font like Wingdings 2 that has the left half and right half glyphs. ... View more

Out of the box, the data merge process of Indesign needs data to produce a layout. There are no conditional mechanisms that could create content based on certain criteria. But, there are ways to enhance the capabilities. Here is a brief example: if "431" was in the data file, there is no way for Indesign to generate the text "Deep Blue" into the layout. But if "431" or "Deep Blue" is present in the data source, this information could trigger a GREP style to then colorize the bullet to the specific blue color. ... View more

To minimize PDF file size of a data merge document try this: - export PDF directly from data merge panel, instead of creating a merged document first - export with Acrobat 8/9 PDF 1.7 compatibilty ... View more

Data merge doesn't sound like a necessary tool for this scenario. I would place a sized text frame on each of the master pages and flow a continuous story of the quotes into the thread, with styled text that will start text in next frame. ... View more

For adding and editing the checkbox appearance in Indesign: Window > Interactive > Buttons and Forms. This will open the Buttons and Forms panel, from this panel select the flyout (upper right) and then Sample Buttons and Forms. This will open the sample panel. From here you can drag any of the pre-built check box items into a document and then modify as you like. For editing the checkbox style in Acrobat: Contextually (right mouse) select a checkbox element > Properties > Options > Checkbox Style. This allows you to select the style: check, circle, cross, diamond, square and star. To change color of style: From Properties > Appearance > Text Color. Please note checkbox appearance and style are two different functions ... View more

Your settings should look like this: ... View more

Have you checked the resolution of the images in Acrobat? Have you changed the downsampling resolution in your PDF export setting? Have you tried the ZIP compression method, instead of JPEG compression when exporting? ... View more

Here are 2 workarounds: 1. Use only one element for the rollover appearance. I know that will not work for the rollover effect you created, but it seems to be more reliable. 2. Instead of using rollover appearance, use a combination rollover action of show the effect, and rolloff action of hide the effect. ... View more

After thinking about my comment pertaining to adding the action, this will only affect a user leaving the page and not have any effect on the user just hovering over the buttons. Here is one thing that I tried and works. I moved the menu items and gave more space between them. Edit: spacing the menu items helps, but does not resolve the issue. ... View more

I noticed the sticky rollover, and it seems to be related to how the cursor leaves the hotspot area. One thing to keep in mind, you only have rollover appearance working right now. When you have an action like go to page, the user will not see this sticky rollover. ... View more

IMO, there is no need to manually downsize images in Photoshop. By default, High Quality and Press Quality PDF export will bicubic downsample images above 450PPI and this will take care of the images in your file. ... View more

Exactly what issue are you having? ... View more

It sounds as though an image could be made various colors. If so, how would a script know what specific color to make an image? Or, would you want a random color applied? ... View more

Another thing I recently did was give a folder public access. ... View more

No specific error code, but the messages are "Unable to sync some files" or "Unable to sync data". I suspect this issue might be due to an illegal character in the files that can not be synced. Is there any way to determine the name of the files that will not sync? ... View more

Hi David, • Files are shared from a number of computers including Windows 4.2.0.211, Mac 4.2.0.211, and Mac 3.8.0.310 • Yes • Yes • Not on the one Mac • Yes, I have sporadically experienced longer than usual sync times. Other things I have observed is CC runs a sync when there were no files updated. And I receive messages that some files can not be synced. ... View more