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From: L Snider
Date: Jun 9, 2021 6:28PM

I saw this a while back, have you tried this? You put the words into a text
file
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/dictionary-locating-downloadable-file-macos-2018-cc/m-p/9598035

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:16 PM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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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