Affinity programs set up in languages other than English

[William Overington]

I have the three Affinity programs, each set up in English.

I gather that the programs can also be configured for some other languages, the whole thing, menu bar, cascading menus and so on.

Which languages are available please?

If I want to have a try with a program set up in, say, French, can I do that, and if so how please?  If I can, can I have English and French both available simultaneously please?

William
 

[walt.farrell]

16 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Which languages are available please?

Go to Preferences, General tab. The language choices for the user interface are at the bottom.

Each application can be configured for a different interface language, but only one at a time.

However, if you're wanting to have text in your documents, each document can have many different languages in it. If that's what you're asking the answer is more complex, involving which dictionaries you have installed and using the Character one or text styles to specify the language for each piece of text.

[William Overington]

14 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Go to Preferences, General tab. The language choices for the user interface are at the bottom.

Each application can be configured for a different interface language, but only one at a time.

 

Hi Walt

Thank you.

That is exactly what I wanted to know.

I have just tried the French version.

It works great.

I have long thought that it is a pity that although subjects like chemistry and physics and French are all taught, and my French is a bit rusty, I would not be able to, say, write up a basic chemistry or physics experiment in French, as language tuition is often treated as travelling, eating out and literature.

Maybe books like "Learn how to write up science in French" aimed at English-speaking people exist, but I am unaware of them. I remember the multilingual instruction sheets of some Kitmaster locomotive construction kits back in the 1960s and how I found interest in finding out how to write "smoke deflectors" in French.

http://kitmaster.org.uk/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosebud_Kitmaster

Best regards,

William