That is a seriously weird mystery. I don’t think I’ve seen that before, and I cannot identify why those guides are there.

Does it happen to all documents you create? Did you do something to this document to make it look like that? Is it just this one document?

That’s right… 2020 removed some of those features and moved others. Some went to the bottom of the Tool panel. Bridge and Stock are both in the File menu. Arrange is in the Window > Arrange menu.

Never seen that before!

Well, color management (maintaining consistent color from screen to print) is a huge topic. I did a course on it at Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning: https://linkedin-learning.pxf.io/69WoG

However, the fact that it looked “right” when you export at smallest file size is an interesting clue. Smallest file size converts everything to RGB, so it’s probably quite accurate for what you see on screen. But it’s not accurate for CMYK print.

I assume you’re trying to maintain the difference between bronze and black… but that bronze is a very dark color. That’s going to be tricky to print! Remember that print may involve dot gain, which makes everything darker.

No, InDesign Server is not required for this. But Data Merge will almost certainly be too basic for a catalog. I would suggest watching something like my video course called “InDesign: Data Merge” here: https://linkedin-learning.pxf.io/kXD9z

But you’re probably going to want to work with a tool such as EasyCatalog (from 65bit) or InCatalog or Cacidi Extreme, or with a service such as Pagination.com

Thanks for sharing that!

IDML supports them just fine. That is, if you save as IDML and then open that IDML back in ID2020, they work.

However, of course they don’t work in ID2019. It comes in as a missing font.

That’s weird. Very weird.