InDesign CS6 8.0.2 Release Notes

For the latest system requirements, see the InDesign system requirements page.

Installation instructions

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Resolved issues

Please refer to Adobe Support http://www.adobe.com/go/customer_support for late-breaking information and known issues for all Creative Suite 6 applications.

InDesign

• When creating hyperlinks, a few special characters such as '?', '=' in the hyperlinks are converted to invalid characters making the hyperlink fail in the PDF export. [3588280]
• Importing InCopy CS2 documents into InDesign CS6 causes InDesign to quit unexpectedly. [3587652]
• Placing files from a smart collection opened from a Drive 5 connected CQ server acting as DAM causes an "Import failed" error in InDesign. [3577138]
• Recomposing text in a multi-column frame causes InDesign to quit unexpectedly. [3565074]
• An extra unreferenced link resource gets created when placing a movie file in InDesign. [3555754]
• InDesign quits unexpectedly on typing text containing ligatures repetitively using World Ready Composer. [3551834]
• In a previous version of InDesign, the word "CS7" appears in the error dialogs when accessing documents created in InDesign CC. [3536451]
• Placing a pdf in InDesign causes InDesign to quit unexpectedly both in CS5.5 and CS6. [3513668]
• Frame grid dimensions change on opening the IDML file. [3507245]
• Placed images containing exif data are scaled to 50%. [3501752]
• InDesign quits unexpectedly while exporting to EPUB when a text frame with some text converted to outlines. [3498579]
• InDesign quits unexpectedly on importing a tagged text file having text with Gradient applied on it. [3498575]
• Setting ‘epubExportPreferences.tocStyleName’ to "Default" causes InDesign to quit unexpectedly. [3498571]
• Malayalam hyphenation shows a hyphen character. [3493163]
• Upper case characters being incorrectly mapped to lower case characters in the PDF exported from InDesign. [3490867]
• InDesign shuts down while arranging of documents or panels in certain scenarios. [3490508]
• InDesign quits unexpectedly during Copy/paste of certain content. [3488260]
• InDesign quits unexpectedly while importing certain documents with missing fonts. [3488122]
• A problem occurs while exporting to EPS when a document has facing pages and different inside/outside bleeds. [3445000]
• After dragging top of the Cross-References panel to the top of the Hyperlinks, the URL section disappears. [3371040]
• InDesign Saved Data file size keeps increasing due to non-reuse of the Smart Guides transformation cursor. [3370848]
• Translation of the word ‘Idiom’ is truncated. [3370533]
• Adornment on Grouped page items doesn’t redraw properly. [3365911]
• Updating the IC stories causes InDesign to quit unexpectedly. [3359371]
• Some content is causing InDesign to shut down when exporting to IDML. [3352956]
• Vulnerability detected in rendition generation of PostScript files. [3347267]
• InDesign quits unexpectedly when creating layout from a layout template in a specific case. [3345087]
• InDesign reports assignment file missing when opening IDML files. [3334935]
• On Windows 7 64-bit, InDesign and Bridge CS6 only run with local admin rights. [3332062]
• Contents of a table spanning 2 pages do not correctly export to PDF from the Galley view. [3325704]
• The modification time of a file returned by 'GetFileInfo()' has changed. [3323319]
• The API method ‘IDTime::SetTime()’ gives wrong results when used with InDesign CS6 on Mac. [3323315]
• Unable to access the EPUB export preferences for Books with InDesign CS6 and InDesign CS6 Server. [3321108]
• Update CoolType engineering version to a number bigger than 64. [3317660]
• Unexpected paragraph style change is observed when a story is exported to ICML. [3314712]
• InDesign shuts down while exporting a PDF with certain fonts. [3295591]
• An InDesign file containing large number of hyperlinked IP address causes severe slow down while opening. [3291116]
• Exporting a specific InDesign document to PDF causes InDesign to quit unexpectedly. [3286006]
• While exporting a document, containing a large number of placed PDFs, to hi-quality PDF causes InDesign CS6 to quit unexpectedly. [3282581]
• InDesign should set the value of file information node from the documentID of Metadata that embedded in the file, but not the asset ID from Adobe Drive. [3224927]
• Style Overrides in InCopy ICML Exported from InDesign does not import properly back into InDesign. [3217228]
• A deadlock occurs within ‘CoolType’ when calling ‘StreamForLayout’ from InDesign Server's worker thread. [3205029]
• The PDF/X-4 export succeeds even though undefined Glyphs are referenced in a document yielding a bogus PDF/X-4 file. [3203046]
  

InCopy

• Cursor is not placed in a new Note in InCopy. [3457782]
• InCopy quits unexpectedly on opening an ICML with mixed ME and Indic texts. [3498585]

InDesign Server

• InDesign Server CS6 freezes while trying to export to JPEG. [3584983]
• InDesign Server freezes when trying to generate an index for a book. [3533102]
• InDesign Server CS6 freezes while exporting IDML to HTML. [3503927]

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