: Do I need to flatten an artwork made in Indesign, which will be used for an e-mail blast? I am currently working on an artwork which I plan to use for an email blast and not for print.

@Deb5748823

If you are publishing your work as email, generally speaking, you have to roll back your ambition to the most basic HTML page, or even to putting in a simple PNG or JPEG bitmap of the entire document, perhaps with slices, depending on how complicated your design is. You also need a plain text version of your document for email readers that either don’t support HTML or have HTML turned off.

Interactive features are not supported by email clients. Maybe there is a little bit of CSS interactivity that can get through, but JavaScript is not going to happen. That would be a security risk.

A good idea is to pretend you are targeting a Web browser from 2005 with JavaScript turned off.

So you don’t do any flattening in your InDesign document, you flatten when you export to HTML or PNG or JPEG.

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