StephanP

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/190021-how-do-i-add-additional-dictionaries-to-affinity-v2/&do=findComment&comment=1111426

Yesterday evening I manually removed some Affinity folders that remained after uninstall, reboot my pc and after that the re-install went allright. I didn't take notes, but from the top of my head I found remaining folders in \ProgramData as well as \Users\NAME\Appdata (aka %APPDATA%)

Something happened today while working with Photo and Designer, which caused all Affinity apps to choke. I've tried to reset the apps via Windows Settings - Apps. No success. I've tried to uninstall all apps and re-install them again (msix). No success. The apps choke during the startup phase. So, what can I do to wipe all remains of Affinity apps in order to perform a clean install proper? Any folders that I should remove Any Registry keys I should remove

Unfortunately, these Dutch dictionaries from Hunspell are last updated 10-11 years ago. I would've loved to make use of the newer, richer dictionaries from Libreoffice.

This time I took the zip file from here and that is making the difference! Spelling checking is working properly. Apparently, Libreoffice dictionaries are NOT compatible with Affinity Publisher 2.1.1. Is this a bug?

Hm, with Text frame language set to English, the spelling checking is working properly. So, something is off with the handling of Dictionaries folder structure OR the downloaded *.dic and *.aff files I placed there.

I've renamed the Dictionary folder into nl_NL to see it this would make any difference. To no avail. Same results as with folder name nl-NL.

Affinity Publisher 2.1.1 on Windows 11 nl_NL dictionary files from https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries/tree/master/nl_NL well placed in C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\2.0\Dictionaries\nl-NL Settings - Tools - Dictionaries folder "C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\2.0\Dictionaries" Text - Spelling - Check spelling while typing (enabled) In document: Text frame - Character - Language - Spelling: Nederlands I've created a test document with two text lines; one in English, the other in Dutch language. Each word is marked as misspelled, so I seem to have missed something. But what?

Yesterday Affinity launched a Summer sale, which can be quite interesting for me to (finally) upgrade to version 2.x of the suite. I can't seem to find the duration or end date of the sale period, or am I looking wrong?

Suggestion: PDF Shaper is an excellent tool for splitting, joining and doing lots of other post processing stuff with PDFs.

A restart of my laptop got the Affinity products starting again. I've disabled hardware accelleration for all three and will continue my experiments trying to find more conditions to the issue I've been experiencing

@NathanC Thanks pointing me to the Start and Press-Hold-CTRL bringing up the Clear data dialogue. Unfortunately clear all does not resolve my issue with Designer stalling during start. The odd thing is: it occured just like that. One moment I'm working with Designer, another moment it crashes (seemingly for ever). Once I got Designer c.s. on their feet again, I'll try and disable hardware accelleration.

Okay, here's the deal: Affinity Designer crashes on the following sequence: AD is open with a very simple design holding only two bitmap images that I intend to trace into vector I want to add another bitmap from the web. From my browser Vivaldi I copy the desired bitmap image Alt-tab back to Designer and Presto: Designer has lost its senses and shows an endless spinning arrow (hourglass) indicating it is busy Designer will remain busy for far too long, longer than I am prepared to wait.

After a restart of my laptop everything is fine again. A mystery.

Dammit, Photo and Publisher won't start either!