If you use text variables in tables containing graphics you will experience a number of annoying and strange effects when you output in PDF format. Among other things, some graphics will be "bigger" than their cells and other graphics will be suppressed completely, so that you only see empty cells in the output. The disappearing graphics are triggered by empty paragraphs directly before the graphic in the cell (e.g. a 5-point paragraph inserted with the Line Spacing tool), but the actual source of the problem is the presence of a text variable somewhere in the table.
This problem only occurs in tables with more than one row, so at the moment there are two workarounds:
- Don't use text variables in multi-row tables with graphics.
- If you must use text variables, create a separate, one-row table for each row containing a text variable and a graphic.
