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Anonymous

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Where are the FrameMaker 10 dictionaries located?

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
February 6, 2013
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My FrameMaker 10 installation seems to be doing British English rather than American English. In the spelling checker, I do import dictionary, but can't find any! The dictionary directory on the DVD seems to contain invalid dictionaries.

So where are they hiding, and how do I install dictionaries for different languages?

The Adobe documentation http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/10.0/Using/WSEAAD5A3B-FC22-4c2a-BB76-16EC81643B34.html never says where to find the dictionaries. Only site.dict is in my dict directory.

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Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

Says right in that help page that all dictionaries are installed for all the languages that are listed

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jarome

Participating Frequently

Ah, but elsewhere it says that only one dictionary for the language you specify is installed. And if you follow their instructions, the user (me) until Arnis's post below, has not a clue where they are to be found. The file chooser goes to the FrameMaker install location.

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

Can you find that other mention in the help?

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

Double-check:
Format > Paragraphs > Designer > pick one of your tags, say Body

Properties: Default Font

Language: [ make sure it's US English and not UK English ]

If it is UKE, click in the margin (so no para type is selected), and in that same menu, with everything now set to As-Is or blank, select:

Language: [ US English ]

[ Update All ]

<*> Default Font Properties Only

<*> All Paragraphs and Catalog Entries

[ Update ]

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Anonymous

It says US English, but "centre" is accepted, and "center" is flagged as an error. I did the click outside everything ans selected US English. It says "no insertion point" but I continued and updated all. Still "center" is flagged as an error.

Surely the above link would do all of the paragraph formats at once. But my main question is there. I can't find any dictionaries to import.

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

Jim,

The dictionaries are located in a Lingusitics folder common to Adobe installations. The exact location varies depending upon the O/S. However, you do not/cannot import any of these files - FM automatically uses the specified dictionary of the paratag or character tag containing the word in question. This allows you to mix languages in a single document.

You can tell FM to Learn a word for your Personal dictionary though via the SpellChecker.

FWIW, in my FM10 installations, both spellings are allowed with US English, whereas the UK English flags the "center" spelling.

Note: the message from FM about "no inserion point" indicates that you didn't do the global update correctly.

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