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From: Steve Green
Date: Jun 9, 2021 8:14PM

Thanks Lisa. Unfortunately, that article mostly talks about adding dictionaries to existing languages. At the end it provides a link to "Add and remove Hunspell dictionaries", which I already found. This describes how you are supposed to be able to add new languages. However, this page says to place the files in locations that don't exist on my machine, and all my experiments have failed.

Steve


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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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