StephanP Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanP Posted July 16, 2023 Author Share Posted July 16, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanP Posted July 16, 2023 Author Share Posted July 16, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 5 minutes ago, StephanP said: OR the downloaded *.dic and *.aff files I placed there. Mostly likely that, if you downloaded them directly from Github. I recommend downloading them from the second post in the Dictionary FAQ: 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...
StephanP Posted July 16, 2023 Author Share Posted July 16, 2023 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 1 minute ago, StephanP said: Apparently, Libreoffice dictionaries are NOT compatible with Affinity Publisher 2.1.1. Is this a bug? I believe they are. The strong likelihood is you downloaded your files incorrectly the first time. It's very easy to do that if you try it from Github. StephanP 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...
StephanP Posted July 16, 2023 Author Share Posted July 16, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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