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Support for Hunspell dictionaries in InDesign CS6, to verify spelling and to hyphenate words, extends the number of languages shipped with the product. Dictionaries for over 90 languages are available for integration at the Open Office website. Apart from Open Office, there are other sites which provide Hunspell dictionaries. You can download language dictionaries of your choice and add them to your product.

You can download Hunspell dictionaries from one of the following websites:

Note:

It is recommended that you do not replace existing hyphenation/spelling dictionaries. If you replace existing hyphenation dictionaries, line breaks in the existing documents can change according to the new hyphenation dictionaries when you re-edit the document. Similarly, replacing existing spelling dictionaries with new ones and spell checking existing documents could show different results and suggestions.

If you must replace existing dictionaries, make a backup of the existing files so that you can revert to the original dictionaries, if necessary.

Add a Hunspell dictionary

  1. Download the required Spelling or Hyphenation dictionary. The downloaded file has an oxt extension(in case, it is downloaded from OpenOffice site). If it is downloaded from a site other than OpenOffice, the extension can be different.

  2. Change the filename extension to zip. For example, rename xyz.ext to anyname.zip

  3. Extract the contents of the zip archive to a folder and locate an affix (.aff) file, a spelling dictionary(.dic) file or a hyphenation dictionary(.dic) file. Rename these files using the language ISO codes as given in the table below.

    Language ISO codes are of the form: <ISO 639-1 language codes in lower case>_<CountryCode in upper case>. For example, English(United States) is en_US.

        File type

    		 Rename to

    		 Example
        aff file

    		  <language ISO Code>.aff

    		  en_US.aff
        Spelling Dictionary

    		  <language ISO Code>.dic

    		  en_US.dic
        Hyphenation Dictionary   hyph_<language ISO Code>.dic  hyph_en_US.dic

    For a list of ISO 639-1 language codes, see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:ISO_639-1_language_codes

    For a list of Country codes, see http://www.iso.org/iso/country_names_and_code_elements

  4. Create a folder named <language ISO Code> in the Dictionaries folder, and copy these renamed files in it. Depending on the operating system, the directory "Dictionaries" can be found at mentioned below locations:

       Platform Location of Dictionaries folder
       Windows %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Adobe\Linguistics\6.0\Providers\Plugins2\AdobeHunspellPlugin\Dictionaries
       Mac OS /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Linguistics/6.0/Providers/Plugins2/AdobeHunspellPlugin.bundle/Contents/SharedSupport/Dictionaries

  5. Add a string element wth value <language ISO Code> in Info.plist to the Spelling Service and UserDictionaryService Element or HyphenationService element. Depending on the operating system, the file Info.plist can be found at the mentioned below locations:

       Platform Location of Info.plist
       Windows %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Adobe\Linguistics\6.0\Providers\Plugins2\AdobeHunspellPlugin
       Mac OS

    		 /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Linguistics/6.0/Providers/Plugins2/AdobeHunspellPlugin.bundle/Contents

  6. Restart the application and you are ready to verify spelling and to hyphenate words for this new language.

Remove a Hunspell dictionary

  1. For removing a Hunspell dictionary from CS6, go to the folder with name <language ISO Code> in the Dictionaries Folder and delete the .aff file, spelling dictionary and/or hyphenation dictionary. The names of these files will be of the form :

        File type

    		  Name Format Example
        aff file

    		  <language ISO Code>.aff

    		  en_US.aff
        Spelling Dictionary

    		  <language ISO Code>.dic

    		  en_US.dic
        Hyphenation Dictionary   hyph_<language ISO Code>.dic  hyph_en_US.dic

    Depending on the operating system, the directory "Dictionaries" can be found at the mentioned below locations.

       Platform Location of Dictionaries folder
       Win %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Adobe\Linguistics\6.0\Providers\Plugins2\AdobeHunspellPlugin\Dictionaries
       Mac /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Linguistics/6.0/Providers/Plugins2/AdobeHunspellPlugin.bundle/Contents/SharedSupport/Dictionaries

  2. From the Info.plist file remove the string element from the Spelling Service and UserDictionaryService Element and/or HyphenationService element. Depending on the operating system, Info.plist can be found at the mentioned below locations.

       Platform Location of Info.plist
       Win %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Adobe\Linguistics\6.0\Providers\Plugins2\AdobeHunspellPlugin
       Mac /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Linguistics/6.0/Providers/Plugins2/AdobeHunspellPlugin.bundle/Contents

  3. Relaunch InDesign and you find that this language has been removed from the available languages list for Spelling and/or Hyphenation services.

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