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From: Zainab AlMeraj, PhD.
Date: Jun 9, 2021 11:38PM

I'm not sure about adding multiple languages but you can install default
languages from Creative Cloud CC Account go to preferences then Apps. Hope
this gives you a temp fix.

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On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 5:14 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adding languages to Adobe InDesign
>
> 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,
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