APub not spell checking correctly.

[iclaudius]

What's going on with preflight? It's saying that nearly all my words are spelled wrong. I have it set for English in the character view and in preferences. My Mac is set up for American English. 

 

I have enclosed an afpub file.

Intermediate22.afpub

[walt.farrell]

Can you also place the text cursor in one of those words, and then provide a screenshot of the Character studio panel, please?

My Windows version of Publisher does not complain about any spelling errors, but that is probably because the spelling language that came in with your file is an unknown one, en-ES. I'd like to see what yours says to compare them.

[iclaudius]

I write in three different languages, English, Spanish, and Italian. I've got multiple keyboards installed. But I am using an American keyboard for this project.

[walt.farrell]

The keyboard should not matter.

It's strange, though, that your system thinks it's English, but mine says it's a variant of English that I've neer seen, en-ES. I would understand if it were en-US, or en-GB, or en-CA, or one of several others. But en-ES (which my Publisher claims you're using) would seem to be English as written in Spain, which doesn't make any sense to me.

[iclaudius]

Well, I am in Spain, but my system is all in English. And it's not only one computer. I have three macs, and all of them seem to have the same problem.

[walt.farrell]

Interesting. I'll have to defer to someone who knows more about how spelling and dictionaries work on Mac, I'm afraid. Thanks for providing the additional information.

[garrettm30]

23 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

someone who knows more about how spelling and dictionaries work on Mac,

I don't have the full answer to this issue, but here is a little further information on how the spelling options that Publisher offers relate to the the macOS language settings. In the screenshot below, I compare a screen from the macOS System Preferences, Keyboard section, Text tab (and in the spelling drop down, I have selected "Set Up") on the left, and the Publisher's Character Studio on the right:

Notice that the only spelling options presented in Publisher are those that are turned on in the spelling settings of the Mac. This may be confirmed by changing the settings in the System Preferences and restarting Publisher, whereupon the spelling choices in Publisher are changed to conform to the OS settings.

Notice further that I have US English, British English, and Canadian English enabled on the Mac, but Publisher list US English as simply "English." I have not further tested this aspect, but as I have my Mac system UI language set as U.S. English, and Publisher's UI language is set to follow system default, I think Publisher is reporting my varient as simply "English" and being more specific on other variants.

[iclaudius]

26 minutes ago, garrettm30 said:

That's good advice. I had a lot of languages in there that I will probably never use. I left the three languages I usually use and it was reflected in aPub. The only problem is that preflight still recognizes the words as misspelled, so I have to select each text box and re-choose English in the character palette in order to make the errors go away. 

 

[wonderings]

I opened the Publisher file and get the same thing. I am in Canada and only have Canadian English selected, and never use anything else save for the odd time when typing in French. I think this is a settings issue in your document. Not sure what it could be but when I copy and past some of the text into a new Publisher document it still underlines words in red. If I type the same text above it, the exact same way it finds no issue with the spelling. When right clicking on word it gives no options for what it thinks it should be.

Wast this text copied in from somewhere else? Not sure why that would matter but this is very bizarre 

[iclaudius]

1 minute ago, wonderings said:

I opened the Publisher file and get the same thing. I am in Canada and only have Canadian English selected, and never use anything else save for the odd time when typing in French. I think this is a settings issue in your document. Not sure what it could be but when I copy and past some of the text into a new Publisher document it still underlines words in red. If I type the same text above it, the exact same way it finds no issue with the spelling. When right clicking on word it gives no options for what it thinks it should be.

Wast this text copied in from somewhere else? Not sure why that would matter but this is very bizarre 

Yes. Much of it was cut and pasted from an old edition of the same book (in US English as well). Bizarre indeed!

[nwhit]

Be sure to check for odd hidden characters that came come in with copy/pasting text or by opening PDFs (and sometimes IDML imports). Located under Text/Show Special Characters. I have found several times I had a similar issue that somehow odd hidden characters were within the text that did not show up without turning on Show Special Characters. Also need to be in Non-Preview Mode to see those. 

[iclaudius]

Thanks, whit. I didn't find any special characters, but it's good advice when pasting from old documents. 

[MEB]

Hi iclaudius,
For some reason Publisher is not honouring the selected language for each text frame. If you select one of them go to Character panel and set it again to English (despite it's already selected in the dropdown) the spelling marks disappear. I'm logging this to be looked at. Thanks for reporting it.

[iclaudius]

4 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi iclaudius,
For some reason Publisher is not honouring the selected language for each text frame. If you select one of them go to Character panel and set it again to English (despite it's already selected in the dropdown) the spelling marks disappear. I'm logging this to be looked at. Thanks for reporting it.

I figured that out for myself. Unfortunately, I have had to go through more than 75 chapters. This definitely rates as a major  bug.

[MEB]

Already logged iclaudius. I'm sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you.

[iclaudius]

No worries. I’ve been a user since the early betas. I trust you’ll get it taken care of.

[robinp]

28 minutes ago, MEB said:

Already logged iclaudius. I'm sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you.

I reported a similar bug prior to this. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/81-publisher-bugs-found-on-macos/

There has been no response from Serif about it. And your workaround doesn't work for this particular problem.

[MEB]

Hi robinp,
We are a little more busy than usual due to the recent 1.8 launch and still catching up with all user's reports. The order to which they are replied may also not be the same for various reasons: we may have picked the bug from the Activity View rather than the regular Report a bug section, or maybe following/pursuing some threads dealing with a specific issue etc.
Regarding your report it looks like a different issue. You are having trouble with a couple words not almost the whole text as in this thread. It may be just some language setting (English UK/US issues for example) or something else. Your screenshot on that thread isn't much clear about the amount of words affected (maybe with a few more examples of words that are being marked). Thanks for reporting it.

[iclaudius]

My Mac settings are US English, my preference settings are US English. My character settings are in English. I am having trouble with nearly ALL the words.

[wonderings]

I copied text from icladius supplied file. I pasted that text in a new document no region settings set (English Canadian). In the screen shot his text is on the bottom, I retyped his text in a new text box above. You can see that my re-typed text is fine, but his is not. Used the same font and size. There nothing peculiar that I can see in comparing the two, all seems identical

 

Screen Shot 2020-03-04 at 3.30.00 PM by B P, on Flickr

[iclaudius]

The only thing I can think of is that part of the text was cut and pasted from Pages, but that was set for US English, too. Does apub not play well with others?

[robinp]

22 hours ago, MEB said:

Hi robinp,
We are a little more busy than usual due to the recent 1.8 launch and still catching up with all user's reports. The order to which they are replied may also not be the same for various reasons: we may have picked the bug from the Activity View rather than the regular Report a bug section, or maybe following/pursuing some threads dealing with a specific issue etc.
Regarding your report it looks like a different issue. You are having trouble with a couple words not almost the whole text as in this thread. It may be just some language setting (English UK/US issues for example) or something else. Your screenshot on that thread isn't much clear about the amount of words affected (maybe with a few more examples of words that are being marked). Thanks for reporting it.

Hi

Thanks. It’s specific to this word. Nothing like how many errors @iclaudius is seeing. 
 

I’m not going to give a larger screenshot because it is confidential information, but all the settings on the Mac and in Publisher are set to British English or English (UK). 
 

Robin