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is there any thai typing and spelling support?

There is nothing in this upgrade that give me that "Wow!", I need to upgrade. As for saving a PDF as grayscale. That has been available since CS1. All you had to do was save the file as a Postscript file and chose Composite Gray in the output. Then convert the Postscript file to PDF and you have a PDF as Grayscale.

@adipol - I don't know if Thai type is supported, but there is now support for opensource hunspell dictionaries.That means that if you not able to do Thai spell check in earlier versions, you would be able to now since you could load a free open source dictionary.

@Dobkel - Regarding grayscale, yes there were workarounds in previous versions but you had to refry the PDF by distilling. You are much better off now that you can keep transparency native and export a much richer PDF. Even though it looks like most of these features seem to be geared towards digital publishing, a lot of it still applies to print. Alternate layouts are a great way to have multiple sizes of an add in one document (letter, A4, etc). Granted you could do this in CS5 with the page tool, but it is easier alternate layouts.

Dobkel, on 25 April 2012 - 06:32 AM, said:

Yep, definitely a 1-step experience there.

I run into this with CS5: I need to create a 2 page saddle-spread with print marks for my printer. I do the layout in CS5, convert as a booklet. Oops. No that didn't work (it did in InDesign CS with the Booklet plug-in). Okay, so I print the booklet as a ps file. Open it in Acrobat and distill it out at the settings I want. And that in itself is a multi-step process, but I've created defaults. It is a royal pain.

Is it enough to upgrade to CS6? For me, not so sure.

Oh how I miss Pagemaker 7. It was all so easy back then.

actually it is kind of misstep, as there are different typographic rules for Print and Web - and to say so, many so called "web designer" dont know what the fck typography is.