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Hi Matt,
The short answer is that you can't use an InDesign layout for a dynamic LC Designer form, with a flowed layout.
There are a couple of options for using an InDesign > PDF > LC Designer workflow, however these are restricted to static layouts or just bear minimum backgrounds.
For example, for some projects I prepare an A4 background in Illustrator and then export this to .png. In LC Designer I use an Image object on the Master Page to display this .png. However in this situation the .png has header and footer elements that don't relate to input areas on the form. I then use objects in LC Designer to create either the static or dynamic form.
So in your case you may need to alter your InDesign file, to only include background/header/footer elements and NOT input areas. Then export to an image format. I find .png to be a small file size, but you may want to push it up to 300px as it may be fuzzy at lower resolutions. Then in LC Designer go to the Master Page and drag an Image object onto the page. Set its position to 0,0 and the width and height to the page size. Then associate this with your .png file from InDesign. Adjust the Content Area (purple dotted line) to constrain the pages to suit your InDesign layout. See here: http://assure.ly/g0Wx7r.
From there you would use objects to create the main form on the Design Pages.
Hope that helps,
Niall
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