brunzenstein Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 As the the headline mentioned- on a German mac with Affinity set to English as language the help menus stays in German. Quote Mac print publishing X-Press & Adobe hostage, cooking on extrem high level, subscribing with joy to US Cooks Illustrated & Foreign Affairs, the british Spectator and the swiss Weltwoche - absolute incompatible publications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/15869-english-help-on-german-mac-confused/ Sadly it is by design Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsh Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Change the language in: Systemeinstellungen above under the black aple. > Sprache und Region > add (> +) English > choose E. That´s it. regards lars Quote all Aff 2.2: Capture One+ 23 pro; MacBook Pro, OSX 10.15.7, Fuji X-Pro2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Yeah, sadly enough, MBd … :( (But the language setting will affect the whole system, won’t it, Lars?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsh Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Ja, after you won´t use English any longer, delete English at this place, so German is primarly (!) again. I just tried, but I do not know more about. Only to change to German I did not find a way. lars Quote all Aff 2.2: Capture One+ 23 pro; MacBook Pro, OSX 10.15.7, Fuji X-Pro2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 There might be a workaround for this but I have not tried it (nor will I) & it is a bit risky so I strongly suggest having a good backup in place in case it causes problems. I will take no responsibility for anything that goes wrong! The idea is that in System Preferences > Language & Region you can set up a list of Preferred languages. The top "primary" one is used unless the app has no resources for that language, in which case the OS goes down the list looking for the first language that has the resources. So, it is possible that if it cannot find the help resources in the app for the primary language it will use those in the next language on the Preferred languages list. For Designer, the help resources are in /Applications/Affinity Designer.app/Contents/Resources/AffinityDesigner.help/Contents/Resources. So maybe if the de.lproj folder is renamed, moved, or deleted, this will cause AD help to use the help folder for the next preferred language, for example from the English.lproj or en-US.lproj folder if your second preferred language is English, English (U.K.) or English (U.S.). I would be interested in knowing if this works, but again, be advised that you would be doing this at your own risk. A_B_C 1 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...
anon1 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 I use this technique in C1 to get English C1 because they don't have a language setting at all. It propably works with Affinity as well but it is not particularly nice because in C1 I have to do the process again after each update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsh Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 What is C1? lars Quote all Aff 2.2: Capture One+ 23 pro; MacBook Pro, OSX 10.15.7, Fuji X-Pro2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Capture one pro Digital asset Management Software made by phase one - something affinity wants to make as well but has not yet Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsh Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Thanks Quote all Aff 2.2: Capture One+ 23 pro; MacBook Pro, OSX 10.15.7, Fuji X-Pro2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samoreen Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 I use this technique in C1 to get English C1 because they don't have a language setting at all. [OFF TOPIC]? ? ? They have. Just look at the Preferences.[ON TOPIC] Quote --PatrickHamburg ist der wahre Grund warum Kompassnadeln nach Norden zeigen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 [OFF TOPIC]? ? ? They have. Just look at the Preferences.[ON TOPIC] not in V 9.3 as their support told me as well/ or you discovered something that they have not discovered :D maybe they added it as one if their so called features in V10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 I would be interested in knowing if this works, but again, be advised that you would be doing this at your own risk. Hi R C-R, well, that looks like an interesting approach, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work, at least on my machine with the Beta of Affinity Photo. I didn’t dare to try it with the App Store versions. So the best way might be still to copy English.lproj and shared from the location you indicated to another place in the file system and access the help files through a web browser. I would be interested though, if someone got this to work … Alex :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samoreen Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 not in V 9.3 as their support told me as well/ or you discovered something that they have not discovered :D maybe they added it as one if their so called features in V10 You mean on the Mac ? I was talking about Windows, sorry. anon1 1 Quote --PatrickHamburg ist der wahre Grund warum Kompassnadeln nach Norden zeigen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 You mean on the Mac ? I was talking about Windows, sorry. ok sorry, wasn't´t aware that those windows users are still out there using graphics apps LOL just joking :D alright cheers BTW I tried moving the lproj. files or help files in AP but it just did not show any help afterward whatsoever - re downloading from the MAS solves the issue though so it´s back normal now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samoreen Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 ok sorry, wasn't´t aware that those windows users are still out there using graphics apps LOL just joking :D alright Well, it seems that these days Windows users have less problems with graphics applications than Mac users. The Nik Software plugins are a good example. :P Greetings from Fontainebleau, France. Quote --PatrickHamburg ist der wahre Grund warum Kompassnadeln nach Norden zeigen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Well, it seems that these days Windows users have less problems with graphics applications than Mac users. The Nik Software plugins are a good example. :P Greetings from Fontainebleau, France. yeah you have some advantages but we have a proper fullscreen and can still have our dock visible on the other descs - you have to hide your "windows toolbar" to get real fullscreen - that would drive me out of my head (and I don't like the NIK software :D ) anyway good to know you come along well :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samoreen Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 yeah you have some advantages but we have a proper fullscreen and can still have our dock visible on the other descs - you have to hide your "windows toolbar" to get real fullscreen It seems that you should update your knowledge about Windows. Anyway, we are off topic. We should stop this discussion. Quote --PatrickHamburg ist der wahre Grund warum Kompassnadeln nach Norden zeigen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 BTW I tried moving the lproj. files or help files in AP but it just did not show any help afterward whatsoever Did you also modify System Preferences > Language & Region to add English as a 'preferred' language below your primary one? 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...
anon1 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 (edited) Did you also modify System Preferences > Language & Region to add English as a 'preferred' language below your primary one? No Does that work out? I actually have English set as a second language @Samoreen I doubt it but yeah Edited December 17, 2016 by MBd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pouyadou Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Is there a German speaking (and posting) community of affinity users? I could not find one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunzenstein Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 Nein. Aber es gibt eine Menge exzellente deutsche Tutorien auf youtube. Mensch Mensch ist einer der Besten um in die Gänge zu kommen: https://youtu.be/4QUPoHn9qMc Quote Mac print publishing X-Press & Adobe hostage, cooking on extrem high level, subscribing with joy to US Cooks Illustrated & Foreign Affairs, the british Spectator and the swiss Weltwoche - absolute incompatible publications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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