Can't change the language of my document without Affinity Publisher crashing

[dehskins]

Somehow Affinity identifies my document as Canadian and will not allow me to fix this quickly. I had to go to every instance of text within my hundred-page document only to have Publisher completely freeze. I want an easier way to do this, please. I did not assign this language to Affinity; it is not set up for Can-English. In the characters panel, it shows ca-eng. I only wish to use American English in my document.

[dehskins]

I figured out how to change this throughout my document. I use the select menu and select object then choose art text. I then go to the character panel and change the language to my desired language. Then go to edit>defaults>save and do the same for frame text and path text. That seems to work well for me. Then I save and restart and I have my preferred default active.

[MikeTO]

3 hours ago, dehskins said:

I figured out how to change this throughout my document. I use the select menu and select object then choose art text. I then go to the character panel and change the language to my desired language. Then go to edit>defaults>save and do the same for frame text and path text. That seems to work well for me. Then I save and restart and I have my preferred default active.

You shouldn't have to do this separately for frame, art, and path text. You should be able to just create a new document, create any sort of text object, type a word, set all the character and paragraph attributes the way you like them, and then save your defaults. That should set it for all types of text objects.

Good luck

[dehskins]

My preflight was still picking up instances. I agree I shouldn't have to do all I did.

[walt.farrell]

15 hours ago, dehskins said:

Somehow Affinity identifies my document as Canadian and will not allow me to fix this quickly. I had to go to every instance of text within my hundred-page document only to have Publisher completely freeze. I want an easier way to do this, please. I did not assign this language to Affinity; it is not set up for Can-English. In the characters panel, it shows ca-eng. I only wish to use American English in my document.

Did you create the document and type the text? Or did you import from someplace else (and if so, where)?

What is your Windows system language and region set to?

In your Publisher Settings, General, what Language do you have set for the User Interface?

[dehskins]

The preferred language on my Windows 10 PC was set as English Canadian. I'm sure that had a lot to do with my assigned language on Affinity Publisher. It is nice to know that you can change the default within the program without changing your PC setting.

[dehskins]

17 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Did you create the document and type the text? Or did you import from someplace else (and if so, where)?

What is your Windows system language and region set to?

In your Publisher Settings, General, what Language do you have set for the User Interface?

Every new document I created defaulted to that Can-Eng until I saved my preferred US-Eng as the default.

[walt.farrell]

5 hours ago, dehskins said:

Every new document I created defaulted to that Can-Eng until I saved my preferred US-Eng as the default.

Thanks. And what about the other questions? The default Language comes from a combination of your system language and region, and your specified User Interface language.

[dehskins]

The user interface(AP) is set for US-Eng. Only in the character panel was it showing Can-Eng. My Window system language was set to Can-Eng. Not an imported document, every document created defaulted to Can-Eng.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, dehskins said:

The user interface(AP) is set for US-Eng.

Specifically English (US), and not simply English?

[dehskins]

English (US) specifically yes.