There's new support for Indian languages, including Hindi Marathi, Gujarati Tamil, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Oriya Malayalan, and Kannada.

Previously, Middle Eastern versions of InDesign were supported by third-party companies. In CS6, Adobe has taken over development, support, and sales of such versions. New features in the Middle Eastern version includes support for tables in the Story Editor, improved Kashida justification, enhanced diacritic positioning, and other text-handling improvements.

For the Mac, InDesign CS6 requires a multicore Intel processor, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7, and 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended). It also needs a 1024-by-768 display (1280-by-800 recommended) with 16-bit video card.

For Windows, InDesign needs an Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7, and 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended). It also needs a 1024-by-768 display (1280-by-800 recommended) with a 16-bit video card.