Hit shift when you place the text, you will see the cursor change to a meandering S shape with an arrow on the end, when you click the text will flow creating a text box on all the pages it needs.

How about instead of using a snippet, you set the white text in Illustrator and make it white overprinting, it will allow this without a work round, then import the .ai file into your Indesign file.

Addendum to my last post:

Unless someone has a script that can atomate this process.

:) Good work Jongware.

I do recommend doing it by hand though it'll give you a nice exercise in manipulating type

It may not be practical in your case but I have done this in the past by using one text box and an indent on the body text, no extracting heads required.

I have always worked of the premise that you shouldn't enlarge more than 20%. And I think that as long as you don't go any lower than 200 dpi you should be alright, check it though, run it out and check.

A hyphen or even multiples of hyphens are different to an en or em dash, so that may be where you are going wrong.

I read my first reply back sorry if it sounded a bit short! Not my intention at all, during the day I am busy so tend to be too brief. :)

It is entirely capable of exporting any kind of pdf you tell it to. Don't blame the tools. Do you imagine that an entire industry would be using a product that doesn't work?

Look at the printer driver and what kind of pdf you are exporting, the colour set up of the text, and to be honest from your description I don't really understand fully what the problem you are encountering is.