How to Add Indonesian Language Dictionary to Affinity Designer (MAC)?

[hengkidh]

Is there a way to add Indonesian Language dictionary to Affinity Designer (MAC version)?

[walt.farrell]

If you open Preferences, and choose Tools, I think you should see at the bottom a line that gives you the location for additional dictionaries. Open that folder, and within it create a new folder named id_ID and then open that id_ID folder.

Next, you can obtain Indonesian dictionaries that should work with Designer (which uses Hunspell), here. From  that site, download hyph_id_ID.dic, id_ID.aff, and id_ID.dic and put all 3 files into your id_ID folder.

That should be all you need. At that point, after restarting Designer, you should be able to tell it that your text is in Indonesian, and spell-check it. (Note that this will not give you an Indonesian user interface for Designer. It's only to allow you to enter text in Indonesian and spell-check it.)

(Note: I'm a Windows user, but I think these instructions should be roughly what you'd need on a Mac, too.)

[hengkidh]

Thanks walt.farrell.

I've tried to find the 'location for additional dictionaries' that you've mentioned, but I can't find it everywhere in the Preferences (I've been looking at the whole tabs). Here's the screenshot of my Tools under Preferences.

[walt.farrell]

Found a post by @Dave Harris that explains that on Mac they use system functions to add spelling dictionaries. But you would use my approach to add hyphenation dictionaries. For hyphenation, he says "On Mac the user-defined ones live below ~user~/Library/Spelling - each language gets its own folder with a name like en_UK."

Sorry for any confusion I may have caused you.

[hengkidh]

Hi @walt.farrell 

I've tried the method on that post. I'm able to spell check using Indonesian in some application such as Chrome, textEdit. But, still unable to do spell checking on Affinity Designer.

I did these following steps:

1. Downloaded the dictionary (tried both OpenOffice and LibreOffice repository).
2. Copied the file to spelling folder on mac.
3. Change the Spelling on System Preferences, Keyboard, Text to Indonesia (Library).
4. I tried to put the .aff and .dic files in the spelling folder or in a folder named id and id_ID.

Thanks.

[walt.farrell]

Did you tell Affinity Designer that your text was in Indonesian?

View > Studio > Character and then select Indonesian in the Language settings at the bottom of the Character panel. (If you've already typed the text, select all of it and then change the language setting.)

[hengkidh]

Oh, thanks, @walt.farrell

You saved my life. I don't event notice that there's a language options in Character. The case is solved. 

[walt.farrell]

I'm happy it worked. Have fun