SarahB Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 The default language setting in my Base style for new documents is Portuguese but I want it to be UK English. I have Portuguese set as a secondary language on my Mac (I live in Portugal) but the primary language in my system settings, keyboard settings, Publisher settings is English and UK English where that is possible. Still, the Base style in new documents defaults to Portuguese – why? I don't have a Portuguese dictionary loaded for spelling, which means I get thousands of warnings about a missing dictionary in Preflight – literally, more than 5,000 warnings in a 280 page document! How can I change the Base language default globally, rather than having to remember to change it for each new document? thomaso 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted September 17, 2020 Staff Share Posted September 17, 2020 Hi SarahB, If you edit the Base style what is the Language option set to? SarahB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Also, what is the exact Preflight error message? (By the way, on Windows the language for Base is set to the UI language that is specified in the Affinity Preferences at the bottom of the General section.) SarahB 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahB Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 53 minutes ago, stokerg said: Hi SarahB, If you edit the Base style what is the Language option set to? The Base style Language says (Unknown en-PT). I can change that to English for each document but surely I should be able to change something somewhere so that it defaults to UK English automatically when I create a new document. I have no idea where/why it is trying to find Portuguese. 29 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Also, what is the exact Preflight error message? (By the way, on Windows the language for Base is set to the UI language that is specified in the Affinity Preferences at the bottom of the General section.) The Preflight message is 'Missing dictionary for language (en-PT)'. I'm using a Mac, but my UI language is set to English in Affinity Preferences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted September 17, 2020 Staff Share Posted September 17, 2020 Hi Sarahb, Could you try selecting the text frame and then Change the Language to EN-United Kingdom and then click Edit>Defaults>Save. If that doesn't work, you could try the Factory Reset option on the Edit>Defaults menu, and that may force it back to EN-United Kingdom for new documents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahB Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 10 minutes ago, stokerg said: Hi Sarahb, Could you try selecting the text frame and then Change the Language to EN-United Kingdom and then click Edit>Defaults>Save. If that doesn't work, you could try the Factory Reset option on the Edit>Defaults menu, and that may force it back to EN-United Kingdom for new documents. Neither of those options worked, base language is still 'Unknown (en-PT)'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Try this: 1. Edit Base and change the language. 2. Click the hamburger icon for the Text Styles panel and then "Save Styles as Default". stokerg 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahB Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 13 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Try this: 1. Edit Base and change the language. 2. Click the hamburger icon for the Text Styles panel and then "Save Styles as Default". We have a winner!!!!! Thank you 😄 stokerg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 You're welcome Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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