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From: chagnon@pubcom.com
Date: Jun 10, 2021 7:08AM


If you have specific questions about any Adobe product, visit Adobe's online forums. https://community.adobe.com/

I'm an Adobe Community Professional there (an invited expert and Forum moderator). Best to first search the forums for your topic; there's a good chance we've already answered your question. If nothing meets your needs, then post a question in the appropriate forum: Acrobat, InDesign, etc.

RE: your dictionary/language situation. You're right, Welsh is not included in InDesign's standard set of language dictionaries that are installed with the program.

There are 2-steps to designating a language in InDesign:

1. Select (or install and then select) the appropriate language dictionary in Preferences / Language.
2. Select the appropriate language in your style definitions.

This lets you set the language globally for the primary language, and designate another language for specific paragraphs of text or individual phrases. Examples: A primarily English language brochure with a Spanish translation. Also a foreign phrase within a sentence, such as "bon voyage" specified in French.

In your case, I'd ask the Forum if the Welsh dictionary is available for InDesign. Copy/Paste what you originally wrote in your post here at WebAIM. I don't have an answer where to get a Welsh dictionary, but another moderator/ACP probably does and can direct you. Someone there definitely knows more about InDesign dictionaries than I do!

I'm amazed by the wealth of information the moderators/ACPs have in Adobe's forums. It's not perfect, but it's the first place I'd go for technical answers.

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Ann L. Wiley Consultants Inc.
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2021 8:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adding languages to Adobe InDesign

Steve,

I think you need help from someone at Adobe. I could provide a suggestion if you send me a message.

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Steve Green
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2021 2:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adding languages to Adobe InDesign

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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Sent: 10 June 2021 06:39
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adding languages to Adobe InDesign

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-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> L Snider
> Sent: 10 June 2021 01:29
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> 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,
> > Steve Green
> > Managing Director
> > Test Partners Ltd