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From: Zainab AlMeraj, PhD.
Date: Jun 10, 2021 12:32AM

You're welcome. Hope you find a solution soon.


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On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 9:10 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Thanks Zainab, but that sets the display language of the application, not
> the language of the document. And in any case the list of languages doesn't
> include Welsh.
>
> Steve
>
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>
> 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.
>
> Zainab
>
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> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 5:14 AM Steve Green <
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> 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
> >
> >
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> > L Snider
> > Sent: 10 June 2021 01:29
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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-downloadab
> > le-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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