Jeffjn Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 Just a bit puzzled here. I'm labeling screenshots in Designer and then using them in Serif Page Plus. Both appear to be set the British(UK) English - at least they both tell me that Color is miss spelt. However, the words Calliper and Caliper appear to cause a conflict! PagePlus insists it has two Ls (an "alternative" UK spelling), Designer insists it has one L. Do programs each provide their own dictionaries? Can I set either program up to share the dictionary of the other? (You can tell I have work I should be getting on with :-) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted October 31, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 31, 2016 Hi Jeffjn, You can set the language for the Dictionary in the Character tab attached :) When this is set to English Colour and Calliper both shows the correct spellings :) C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffjn Posted October 31, 2016 Author Share Posted October 31, 2016 Humm... Well on my setups, they don't. in the screenshot, the PagePlus version is above (and in my opinion correct) and the Affinity one is below, and differs from what you say you see in your post. I admit this is a very trivial thing, I just am puzzled :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted October 31, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 31, 2016 Hi Jeffjn, If you go to Affinity Designer > Preferences > General you should see a languages drop down what is yours currently set to? C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffjn Posted October 31, 2016 Author Share Posted October 31, 2016 English (UK) as per the screenshot. (Word seems to agree with PagePlus) Maybe this is just an error/discrepancy in the dictionary provided. I thought that maybe they would be common dictionaries. But if you are seeing Calliper as wrong with Designer set to UK, then it must be my setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteX Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Sorry to resurrect this thread, but can't seem to find another related post. So... how do you add other Dictionaries / Language packs to Designer? (I'm talking about extra languages, that are not present on that dropdown in the language selector). Quote Branding, Identity Design, UI/UX Design. | https://whitex.design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 4 hours ago, WhiteX said: So... how do you add other Dictionaries / Language packs to Designer? You don't. Support for different languages has to be built into the app so that for example tool names & other UI elements appear in that language. 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...
Alfred Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 12 hours ago, R C-R said: You don't. Support for different languages has to be built into the app so that for example tool names & other UI elements appear in that language. We’re talking about two different things here. Support for UI languages has to be built in, but spellchecking need not be limited to those languages. Serif PagePlus, for example, has (as supplied by Serif rather than WinSoft International) never offered more than four UI languages; however, the dictionaries for spellchecking the text in a document have long covered about a dozen languages, and latterly there has been a Hunspell option allowing the installation of additional dictionaries for many more languages. WhiteX 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Alfred said: Support for UI languages has to be built in, but spellchecking need not be limited to those languages. True, but that depends at least in part on built-in support from the OS for multiple dictionaries. 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...
walt.farrell Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 45 minutes ago, R C-R said: True, but that depends at least in part on built-in support from the OS for multiple dictionaries. Not necessarily the OS. The app could use a standard spell checker such as Hunspell, which already supports multiple dictionaries and allows users to create and/or install them. Alfred 1 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...
IanSG Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 I'm not at my PC at the moment, but AD has an option to specify a folder for additional dictionaries. Alfred 1 Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, IanSG said: I'm not at my PC at the moment, but AD has an option to specify a folder for additional dictionaries. Preferences > Tools It's the same in Photo. Alfred 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 11 hours ago, walt.farrell said: The app could use a standard spell checker such as Hunspell, which already supports multiple dictionaries and allows users to create and/or install them. So the question now is what format do the Affinity programs expect the dictionaries to be in? I've tried a couple of Hunspell ones and they didn't work. <edit> Looking at the dictionaries that Affinity is supplied with, it seems they are Hunspell! Just make sure the dictionaries are in the correct folder structure! WhiteX 1 Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteX Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 On 4/24/2018 at 2:28 PM, IanSG said: So the question now is what format do the Affinity programs expect the dictionaries to be in? I've tried a couple of Hunspell ones and they didn't work. <edit> Looking at the dictionaries that Affinity is supplied with, it seems they are Hunspell! Just make sure the dictionaries are in the correct folder structure! That's promising. If there's anyone who succeeded with the addition of extra dictionaries to the spell checker, please let us know. How did you do it? Quote Branding, Identity Design, UI/UX Design. | https://whitex.design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 It's easy! The Hunspell dictionaries are provided as 2 files named something like aa_AA.aff and aa_AA.dic. These files are placed in a folder called aa_AA which is under the additional dictionaries folder. "aa_AA" is just an example - the actual filenames will depend on which language you're using. Some of the dictionaries are supplied as .xpi files - these are Thunderbird addons. In reality they're just zip files, so you just need to rename the file extension to .zip and then unpack them. You can find a load of dictionaries here and here. Corny, Alfred, WhiteX and 3 others 4 2 Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteX Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Awesome! Thanks @IanSG I'll try that out. Quote Branding, Identity Design, UI/UX Design. | https://whitex.design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilazas Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Hi, I tried this and it didn't work.. I created a new folder: C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries\Lithuanian And added two files in it: Lithuanian.aff and Lithuanian.dic I downloaded those files as @IanSG has advised from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/language-tools/ (renamed the .xpi file to .zip and extracted) I restarted Affinity but do not see Lithuanian in Character -> Language drop-down. Did it work for anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corny Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 49 minutes ago, neilazas said: Hi, I tried this and it didn't work.. I created a new folder: C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries\Lithuanian And added two files in it: Lithuanian.aff and Lithuanian.dic I downloaded those files as @IanSG has advised from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/language-tools/ (renamed the .xpi file to .zip and extracted) I restarted Affinity but do not see Lithuanian in Character -> Language drop-down. Did it work for anyone? 1 Actually, it does work I show in my example: I've created a pl-PL folder inside "C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries\" and extracted .aff and .dic from the link above. Restart AD and works. I think in your case, you have to create an lt-LT folder (I suppose this is a shortcode) and should works to you too. Quote Affinity Designer, Publisher and Photo | v1 - v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 8 minutes ago, Corny said: I think in your case, you have to create an lt-LT folder (I suppose this is a shortcode) and should works to you too. That's where I went wrong when I first tried this - the folder names have to be correct. Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 On 4/27/2018 at 12:50 AM, IanSG said: It's easy! The Hunspell dictionaries are provided as 2 files named something like aa_AA.aff and aa_AA.dic. These files are placed in a folder called aa_AA which is under the additional dictionaries folder. "aa_AA" is just an example - the actual filenames will depend on which language you're using. Some of the dictionaries are supplied as .xpi files - these are Thunderbird addons. In reality they're just zip files, so you just need to rename the file extension to .zip and then unpack them. You can find a load of dictionaries here and here. The second link seems to be for Thunderbird only. Is it possible to use it for other apps? Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Once you've done the renaming / unpacking you'll have the .dic files - you can use these in any program that supports Hunspell dictionaries. Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 6 hours ago, IanSG said: Once you've done the renaming / unpacking you'll have the .dic files - you can use these in any program that supports Hunspell dictionaries. I can't find the option to download them, also. Do I have to pay for them? I think they are free, but maybe I have mistaken. Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 3 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said: I can't find the option to download them The link in my answer gives you this:- And following that link gives this:- Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 3 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said: Do I have to pay for them? I think they are free, but maybe I have mistaken. I think they're free, too - I use Thunderbird and I've never seen an add-on that wasn't free, or any way of paying for one if it wasn't! Petar Petrenko 1 Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykee Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Ok, I tested and works! Add hyphenation dictionary too, and program can change to my language, but no use! I see red lines everywhere, and no hyphen on my pasted text in textbox, but Auto hyphenation is on... I download directories from here: https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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