@Catherine – does it crash even on new saved documents with blank pages?

Uwe

Ya, I hear you, I was too with my brand new macbook pro I just bought, but doing this re-install keeps all your programs and files in tact and you do not have to re-install everything from scratch like you just bought it, which I was surprised that it didnt delete everything off my mac too at first. I think because I didnt delete the startup disk/mac hd first and only did the lion re-install. It was painless actually and only took an hour and a half. I know, you spend this much money and you expect things to work...

I was having this problem too, and it ended up being a font issue in an old graphic (converted the font to outlines in illustrator and then saved as .eps, unchecking the "embed fonts" checkbox). But now my coworker (who just upgraded to CS6) is having the same problem, and her image doesn't have any fonts in it. We are using PCs.

No resolution here yet.

One thing you might try -

InDesign would also crash when we try to copy the problematic image. So if you aren't sure which image is causing the problem, you can narrow it down by trying to copy each image until InDesign crashes. Then you can look further at that image and see if there are problems with it.

We're still trying to resolve this here, so very interested in any updates.

I found the issue in CS5 that it was the Core Plug-in from Extensis Universal Type Client (if that is what you are using).

Try de-selecting the "Enable Universal Type Auto Activation" in your Universal Type Preferences.

My CS5 InDesign kept crashing when making pdfs- now it hasn't crashed since- but  you have to check that all your fonts are loaded when opening indd documents.

Hope this helps