Can I output a book file (multiple files combined in a book list) to Smartstream from Indesign CS6?

I have a variable data job that also has spotwhite and I can't get it to print correctly! Have done other spotwhite jobs before and have tried several different things to no avail.

This is an advertising piece for our company for which we received the files from HP. Previous versions worked but did not have actual variable data.

The text blocks are set on the diagonal, but I am sending them over "rich" because the list is very short, so I wouldn't think that is the problem. Plus I'm not getting any messages about that in preflight.

I have a block of black type (diagonal) containing variable data. It's on top of a photo with a 40% paper-colored (white) screen over it. It won't show up.

Then I have the customer's name over and over again in spotwhite by itself. This block of type a) is on the diagonal and b) has overset text because some customers have shorter names than others. However, the flyout menu on the "channels" menu has "ignore overset text" selected.

I have tried multiplying the text fields, not multiplying them, changing the layers they're on, changing the order of the layers. Nothing works. Ideas?

How do you impose two different types of products in one apogee 9 job? I have an 8.5x11 brochure I want to gang with a 12 pg 5.5x8.5 book, but I can't figure out how to put an unbound flat double sided piece as a different part with a saddle stitched product.

We want to print 14 business cards together, all the same back, all the same colors, all the same qty. Do we need to make a different part for each business card, or can we renumber the pages in the imposition? We can renumber pages in saddle stitched jobs, but i'm wondering if the flat work style is just configured differently.

On the HP Indigo 5500: Is there a way to put a center cross for fold marks in the center of an 5.5x8.5 8pg imposition which has a .25 head trim (.5 horizontal gap)? There are "special marks" listed, but none of them seem to be what I need.

I have to place a customer supplied pdf w over 1700 pages into Indesign. I have a script to do this quickly.  I have turned on all my "Arial" fonts, but I still get a PDF Placement Warning that "The following fonts aren't currently available: Arial". Sent a test to the digital press they will be printed on, and it looked fine. I have been looking, but can't find a free Arial ttf download that I don't have to register on their site, which I don't really want to do. Is there a way to turn off this warning so that I don't have to hit OK for every page it imports?

We are trying out a new plate, and the company wants us to generate a pdf of a flat that they can use to make sample plates. We have an old version of Apogee; we create our templates in Preps and do imposition in Apogee. The first preview pdf, before rendering, opens in Acrobat. It has crop marks etc (smart marks) but doesn't show the color bar (eps). I'm able to save this, but it doesn't do me much good without the color bar. After rendering, the pdf that we can view in Apogee has the color bar, but I can't save it. Suggestions?