Pixelated Adobe Indesign on Macbook pro retina 13inch

Hi I have a Macbook Pro with Retina Display and I recently installed Adobe InDesign and I am suffering the pixelated look. The adobe update fixed photoshop but bridge and camera raw opened from bridge remain blurry. HOWEVER if i select open file in photoshop from bridge, camera raw opens up perfectly sharp. theres some major glitch going on and i start studying in 3 days and i need this sorted. any ideas? thanks for your time

The CS6 version of the Design Standard suite or a previous version?
AFAIK, everything in the CS6 Design Standard suite has been updated to work with Retina displays... Photoshop was the first and, with updates, the rest followed.
Clinton
EDIT: As I use the CC versions of all Adobe apps, I could be wrong about earlier versions supporting Retina display...
Message was edited by: clintonfrombirmingham

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