Outlandish Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 I see Affinity Publisher has a spell check... but how can I grammar check? Is there an App? and Add-on? a plugin? Does "Grammarly" work within Affinity Publisher? Or is there another third party App that can help? I have searched high and low on these forums, and the tutorials by Serif and Google searches to find the answer but not coming up with much except pasting the text into an external App. I have a 300 page book divided into 17 chapters i.e. lots of individual text frames, so I'm not really that keen to copy and paste the text somewhere else to grammar check it then paste it back into each frame again. I also don't want to risk piracy or compromising confidential information by pasting the text into an external App that operates on a website somewhere. I'm on a Mac desktop if that makes any difference. JosueVivas and Elise Kleve 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 There is no grammar checking function in Publisher. You will need to do it outside of Publisher in a different application. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elise Kleve Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 It would be extremely convenient to have Grammarly or Ginger working in Publisher. JosueVivas 1 Quote Desktop: Affinity Publisher 1.8.5, Windows 10 Professional, version 2004 (19041.450), 16GB memory, AMD Ryzen 5 3600 @ 3.60GHz, RX 570 Laptop: Affinity Publisher 1.8.2, Windows 10 Home, version 2004 (19041.450), 8GB memory, Intel Core i5-4200M @ 2.50GHz, Intel HD Graphics 4600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 On 7/28/2021 at 12:25 AM, Outlandish said: how can I grammar check? Is there an App? and Add-on? a plugin? Does "Grammarly" work within Affinity Publisher? Or is there another third party App that can help? (...) I'm on a Mac desktop if that makes any difference. One possible workaround in macOS for English grammar check: 1. Export .afpub as .pdf 2. Open PDF in the PDF-viewer "Podofyllin.app" https://eclecticlight.co/tag/podofyllin/ (free, 18 MB) 3. Export text as .txt 4. Open in a grammar checker tool, e.g. "TextLint-OneClick.app" http://scg.unibe.ch/research/textlint (free, 60 MB) Catshill 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVS Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Probably beating a dead horse, but I would also like to see Grammarly work within Publisher. JosueVivas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamiC Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Yes please! Make Grammarly work with Publisher. It is needed. JosueVivas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosueVivas Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 My two cents. Dear Serif team, having spell check is good, but tone and writing style like Grammarly, is a LEAP vs what Affinity Publisher can do: there is no comparison, specially when English is your second language. There is a reason why Grammarly is commercially viable: becasue people need it and spell check doesn't make the cut. Can you, please, integrate Grammarly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 Just curious but how many languages does Grammarly support? How would it work in a multi-language document? Is it strictly cloud based (so it requires an internet connection) or is there a self-contained downloadable version that would work if internet access is slow or unavailable? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosueVivas Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 They only support English. You can have local app installed, but the magic happens in their servers in the cloud. R C-R 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 1 minute ago, JosueVivas said: They only support English. You can have local app installed, but the magic happens in their servers in the cloud. So from that I gather it would not be possible to build it into APub such that it would work without an internet connection, & there is no way it could be integrated with Affinity's multi-language support for spell checking, for grammar checking, etc. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Eiloart Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 Hmm, agreed, lack of grammar checking is pretty poor. MacOS has spell/grammar check frameworks. Why not use them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Doyle Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 I also have a book 330 pages, and in the editing phase. Very disappointed I can't use Grammarly. Ironic that this works while I am writing this email. JosueVivas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 10 hours ago, Anna Doyle said: I also have a book 330 pages, and in the editing phase. Very disappointed I can't use Grammarly. Ironic that this works while I am writing this email. Hi @Anna Doyle and welcome to the forums. Serif has closed the issue with Grammarly as it can't be duplicated in the latest version. They didn't fix anything, it's just that nobody could duplicate the issue any longer. However, a similar issue with Grammarly cropped up this week with another feature (footnote separator). It's being investigated now but I checked the FAQ and noted that Grammarly isn't compatible with any apps downloaded from the Apple App Store. We don't know yet if all the users who previously reported the Grammarly conflict with Find and Replace were using Publisher installed form the App Store or not, but this might be the source of the conflict. If you're using Publisher downloaded from the Apple Store and really want to use Grammarly, I'd just go ahead. If you encounter the crash bug then you could try re-installing it directly from Serif's website (you wouldn't have to uninstall the App Store version first). If that solved the problem then you could just switch over to the version downloaded directly from Serif. Cheers Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Doyle Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Thanks, Mike. Next problem I encountered is the word count. I need to submit a word count to my publisher, and version 1 hasn't got one. I now need to spend $195 to upgrade to version 2. A lot of money for a word counter. Very disappointing. It looks like I have to cut and paste all the pages to MS Word. I am not using Apple. The rest of the program is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 1 hour ago, Anna Doyle said: I now need to spend $195 to upgrade to version 2. A lot of money for a word counter. You get some other functions with V2, not just word count. For example, Footnotes/Endnotes, the Book function, better Cross-References (but not until 2.2), and more. Of course, those may not mean much for your projects. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe-R-aus-B Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 On 4/16/2023 at 1:08 PM, walt.farrell said: You get some other functions with V2, not just word count. For example, Footnotes/Endnotes, the Book function, better Cross-References (but not until 2.2), and more. Of course, those may not mean much for your projects. Word count is not helpful, my opinion - is there a letter count as well (Zeichenanzahl in German)? Thanks in advance, Uwe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Uwe-R-aus-B said: Word count is not helpful, my opinion - is there a letter count as well (Zeichenanzahl in German)? Thanks in advance, Uwe Yes, it has everything you could want walt.farrell 1 Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe-R-aus-B Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Also found it : post from joe_l but thy anyway. The size and handling is tedious – from my side, but … Kind Regards, Uwe R C-R 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 2 hours ago, Uwe-R-aus-B said: Also found it : post from joe_l but thy anyway. The size and handling is tedious – from my side, but … Why is this tedious? If you want characters instead of words you just have to click it once. The setting will be sticky and Publisher will show you characters until you change it back to words, even if that is days or months later. R C-R 1 Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe-R-aus-B Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 It's just very small and working with a wacom, it always needs a very precise touch, to not do change to another panel with some warnings in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccm Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 Any update about integrating Grammarly into Affinity Publisher? Grammarly on Windows desktop seems to pop up automatically over certain text programs (Scrivener, Word) but not with Publisher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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