Swapping from PC to Mac

Hi I am about to buy a Mac for the first time, my question is will my indesign files (CS3 windows) open with the Mac CS6 version? Same for my Fireworks (CS3) Photoshop (CS4) and Dreamweaver (CS4)

And you won't know until the text recomposes, which it doesn't do automatically, but only after you select text or a text frame, so be careful.
Also I STRONGLY recommend you export all of your CS3 files to .inx while you still can and open the .inx versions in CS6 rather than opeing the CS3 .indd files. We see too many reports here of problems that develop with directly converted legacy files in CS6. It doesn't happen to all files, but you can't predict which ones will develelop a problem, and the problems often don't show until you've done considerable work.
Peter Kahrel has a good script at http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/batch_convert.html that can batch convert to a variety of formats, including CS3, and Kasyan Servetsky has another one at http://kasyan.ho.com.ua/batch_export_to_interchange.html

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