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      No offense, but this stuff should be native, and we shouldn't have to
      worry about sending things off to the printer without external viewers.




No offense taken. The external viewer is a trade-off that as
software developers we had to make. If we could have avoided
the viewer, we certainly would have. Maybe one day all of these
effects will be native, maybe not. Still have no disagreement with
your position whatsoever.

      I'm curious, though, if exporting PDF from a file with your plug-in enabled
      has any special problems not normally encountered with files that don't
      use 3rd party plug-ins.




None that we know of. Any "InEffects" will end up getting flattened
just like one of InDesign'sdrop shadows, so by the time you have
a PDF file you are completly severed from the need of any viewer
(minus Adobe Acrobat).