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From: Steve Green
Date: Jun 9, 2021 6:16PM

Has anyone successfully added a language to Adobe InDesign? If so, how did you do it?

We are getting a lot of English / Welsh dual language PDFs to fix, and while we can easily set the languages in Acrobat, I would like to teach our clients to set the appropriate languages in the paragraph styles in InDesign.

This is easy to do with the built-in languages, but Welsh is not one of them. I have found an Adobe article that says you have to obtain a dictionary in the required language in a .udc file format. However, I cannot find any such dictionaries.

I have found a Welsh dictionary that has files with .aff and .dic file formats, but InDesign does not recognise them. Articles that refer to these file formats are mostly more than ten years old, so I suspect the dictionary technology has changed since then.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Steve Green
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