Ordinarily, black does not convert to rich black when you export a PDF, and that’s a good thing. If you’re printing on a printing press, you don’t want fine lines and text to be in rich black most of the time.
But it sounds as though you do want rich black. Is it just so that it looks really black on screen when you open the PDF in Acrobat?

My guess is that you’re using a different PDF preset than before. For example, maybe you switched to PDF/X-1a, which is great for printing, but may look washed out on screen. (Acrobat is just trying to do you a favor by showing you that real printing ink isn’t truly solid black.)

One way to force your PDF to have rich blacks is to choose Working RGB (sRGB) in the Destination pop-up menu, in the Output pane of the Export PDF dialog box. That’ll look great on screen, but you wouldn’t want to send that to a commercial printer, as everything is converted to rgb.

Because we don’t have any way to upload images to this forum, the best thing is to upload to a site such as
https://tinygrab.com
https://www.imageshack.us
https://photobucket.com

I just tried this new site called snag.gy, which is pretty cool, to make this https://snag.gy/eWZvp.jpg

I can display it in the forum post itself by using the img src html code:

Are you planning on flowing XML into your document? And you’re trying to place an InCopy article in a frame? I don’t think it will work that way.

Dale: No, the “flowable” means it will flow into any shape or size it’s given.

No, unless there is a very clear pattern (such as heading then 3 paragraphs, then heading, then 3 paragraphs…) or something else that would tell InDesign that it’s a header, then how would it know what is a header?