Adding user dictionary in InDesing preference-dictionary

[s_ashok]

Hi,

Below are the code i can able to load the user dictionary in PC(windows). For mac its not working.

with(app.dictionaryPreferences){

  //PC////  var fo ="C:/lib/GHM_07_July2016.udc"

  var fo="/Applications/GHM-Dictionary/GHM_07_July2016.udc"

  alert(fo)

app.languagesWithVendors.itemByName('English: USA').addDictionaryPath(File(fo));

}

please guide me.

Thanks in advance...

Regards

AshokInDesign Scripting

[oleh_melnyk]

Uwe,

Is there any method to get path in that Mac format: Macintosh HD:path:to:my:file.udc ?
Can't find correct API method for that... Or do we need to manually build it with adding disk name and replace / with :

PS: I think we need to make special model (from MVC) for adding / removing dictionaries based on the system OS and collect such models somewhere in open source GitHub page

[Laubender]

oleh.melnyk wrote:

Uwe,

Is there any method to get path in that Mac format: Macintosh HD:path:to:my:file.udc ?
Can't find correct API method for that... Or do we need to manually build it with adding disk name and replace / with :

Hi Oleh,

getting the name of a disk is discussed in the thread I linked to below.

There may be other discussions in this forum as well.

ExtendScript Oddity with File/Folder on Mac OS X

RorohikoKris Feb 6, 2012

https://forums.adobe.com/message/4187884#4187884

Let's see, if we can bring the two tasks together.

Regards,
Uwe

[Laubender]

oleh.melnyk wrote:

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5. In order to make new dictionary work you need to select text and reapply language, which is a bit weird - and by reapplying I mean apply another language, then apply original lang

Yes, Oleh, item 5 is working, if I switch to "No Language" of a text selected and back to the language where I added the dictionary. However, hyphenation is still a problem. That means: Not to hyphenate a word that is listed in the user dictionary is a problem. Spell checking is working as expected…

Regards,
Uwe

[oleh_melnyk]

Uwe,

Have you added hyphenation rules to your custom dictionary?

PS: I think it would be great if we could make those user dictionaries synchronize with the server to build a better, up-to-date dictionaries for hyphenation, spell check, title/sentence case etc.

[s_ashok]

Hi oleh.melnyk

Thanks for your effort.

My Problem is on mac.

[s_ashok]

Hi Laubender ,

Thank you very much for your reply.

Just tested it twice and it works.

Regards

Ashok

[karthikS]

Hi Ashok,

Don't forget to pick the correct answer.

Thanks

[oleh_melnyk]

Yay! I made it! Now everything works!

Dropbox - User Dictionary.zip

It might look a bit over complicated, but it consists of small reusable building blocks, which is way better than spaghetti code with the all-in-one file... Reusable code is the key for better scripts, which is easier to understand, extend and support.

[Laubender]

Hi Oleh,

I still had no time looking much into your scripts ( thank you very much for providing them! ), but be careful with "getDriveName.jsx". Mac OSX allows path and file names using "/" in the names (and I've seen them in projects provided by customers) like that:

"Macintosh HD:test/InDesign:myFileToTest/CS6.indd"

I did not test your script with folder/file names like this.
Just a warning…

Best,
Uwe

[oleh_melnyk]

Hi Uwe,

"getDriveName.jsx" should be fine, as it returns just drive name, such as "Macintosh HD".

The problem might be in "pathToMacOS9Style.jsx", which probably should be renamed to "oldMacPath" - this module is for trying to convert the path to old style with colon separator, which was used in Mac OS 9 and below, but Mac OS 9 is not supported since 2002, so this OS's and file path style should be deprecated for at least 14 years! I don't understand why people and software developers, such as Adobe still using it...

For now, I can't find specifications for that format, but if "/" is the only case - I think I can do something with that - right now need more info.

PS: I have found that there's "macpath.py" module, built in Python 2.7 that were made to support that path conversion, but I don't know Python that well to port it to JS, not sure if it helps

[oleh_melnyk]

Ok, I have renamed old "pathToMacOS9Style.jsx" file to "oldMacPath.jsx" and modified it to handle "/" in file/folder name - now everything should work just fine!

Dropbox - User Dictionary.zip