InDesign checklist for importing into CHILI BackOffice

✔  Make sure your file is as light as possible.

✔  Fonts

• Use only either otf or ttf fonts (other fonts are not supported).
• Do not use Adobe fonts.
• Do not use variable fonts.
• CHILI does not support Optical Kerning. Change any text (and relevant Paragraph or Character Styles) to Metrics Kerning instead.
• Fonts are installed on your machine.

✔  Paragraph and Character Styles

• Define any styles you want to bring into your CHILI document.
• Select and delete any unused styles.

✔  Colors

• Create swatches for the colors you want to bring into your CHILI document.
• Select and delete any unused swatches.

✔  Text Frames

• Make sure you have enough space in your text boxes for any new text your users will add in Tempo.
• Make sure the text boxes are not so large that they will overlap other elements if your users fill them with text in Tempo.
• Remove any unused text frames.

✔  Objects and Layers

• Clean up any unnecessary text or images in the pasteboard and remove any unused objects.
• Group static images together.
• Make a layer for your variable objects and layer for your static objects.

✔  Run the CHILI preflight panel 

• Install the CHILI preflight extension here: CHILI Publish Adobe Extensions
• List of CHILI preflight warnings and errors here: Preflight Warnings & Errors
• You don't need to fix warnings, it's just an awareness of potential issues. CHILI may not support all the features InDesign has (for example: rounded corners on boxes, gradient strokes, and blend modes and effects on objects).
• You DO need to fix errors.