Fonts in Indesign CS6

I have recently downloaded the new Indesign CS6 and now my fonts are showing up as an error. I've tried copying all my fonts and adding them to the Indesign folder but they are still showing as an error. Please help.

Please show me a screen capture of the error (inthe Prefilight panel, which is where I think you see it) and on the page when you click the link nect to the error listing. You can embed the screen captures in your post using the camera icon on the web page, like this:

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I¹ve designed a company profile in English and they need it to be translated into Arabic for their Middle Eastern branch. They¹ve sent the correct Arabic copy in a Word document but the moment I copy it into InDesign it corrupts and becomes illegible. I¹ve looked on the Adobe and Apple forums but can¹t find a solution for the problem.
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This is a Mac problem because one of my friends have InDesign for Windows and the font works 100% on her version.
Mmmmaybe.
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I¹ve designed a company profile in English and they need it to be translated into Arabic for their Middle Eastern branch.
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I'm having problems with my Hebrew fonts and need help. I have Indesign CS6 for Mac and have downloaded the Hebrew Supported version. I have set up my document so that paragraph and character reflect the need for Hebrew. I can use the standard Hebrew system fonts, however I have loads of great Hebrew fonts which are recognised by Font Book but not in Indesign. The weird thing is that on CS4 these fonts were recognised (however at that time I didn't have Hebrew support so ended up typing, letter for letter, backwards to get the text I needed.
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The warning sounds like it indicates that the font you want to use might not be suitable for Unicode Hebrew. Are they perhaps in some legacy encoding?
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http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa

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Hello
The new version Adobe InDesign CS6 of the program does not work when some Arabic fonts, one of the final family axt
And many others, what is to solve this problem
http://im24.gulfup.com/2012-05-22/1337673524451.png
Lines do not work at all
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مرحبا وليد
بعد ورود عدة شكاوى بخصوص خطوط اي اكس تي، تواصلنا مع فريق التعريب لدى ادوبي وابلغونا رسميا بعدم توافق برامج سي اس ٦ مع هذه الخطوط ويبدو ان بعض هذه الخطوط تعمل بشكل جيد وبعضها غير متوافق تماما والبعض غير متوافق كليا، لذا من الواضح ان الخيار الافضل هو تحويل الخطوط لنمط اوبن تايب او شراء خطوط اوبن تايب لتلافي المشاكل بالمستقبل
Hi Walid,
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Yuliart please mark as correct
Virender,
I didn't put in the font style because it wasn't asked for but if you are finding both the font and the style as in your example then you don't need to do a separate line for the style
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Machine #1, Mac Pro:
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3.06 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon, 24GB RAM.
Machine #2, iMac:
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Example:
1. I open a packaged inDesign file in InDesign CS6, converting it from the previous version (CS5 in this case, according to IDentify.jsx). The fonts are all working.
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3. I package the file from CS6, no font problems shown in packaging.
NOTE: I do not get a "could not copy fonts" error at all.
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5. I can easily manually copy the fonts from the old package into the new package and fix the issue. The fonts are not damaged, missing, locked, or have any visibly different permissions from the other font files when I get info.
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