How To Change The Language Of Adobe Illustrator

13 views

Skip to first unread message

Tracee Hsiang

unread,

Aug 3, 2024, 10:20:00 AM8/3/24

to bauconthandweb

Does somebody knows how to change the language? Because my text is in spanish and I need to check the spelling, but it detects that everything is bad written obviously because it is checking in english... Is there a plug-in to let illustrator to do that? or if it is already included with the normal installation, where can I activate it?

All language preferences were set to English (USA). I ended up resolving the issue by reseting all the language preferences again, exiting out of all Adobe apps in my dock. Signing out form my adobe account, resigning in and launching Illustrator again. Seemed to have been a bug fixed by a soft restart of the programs.

I don't know for sure, but I expect at the very least you would require the OS to have Spanish language support and/or Illustrator would have to be a Spanish version. I hope someone can chime in and give you a conclusive answer.

Open the character palette (windows -> type -> Character) select show options from the submenu (top right corner of the palette). Select all your text, chose spanish from the drop down box in the character palette. Spanish spell checking is now working

Select the text and change the language to English in the character palette. The language of you text is set as a text attribute to font size, but makes most sense to set to entire paragraph, and then go back and set individual words if they are in another language.

I did exactly that, SVERAL times. Didn't fix the issue. So I was left with signing out of my Adobe Account and restarting the programs. Then, and only then, did my dictionary go back to checking for words in English.

I have run into an issue with spell checking in InDesign, sometimes it wants to default to German since I am in Germany and it gets annoying. I always have to switch it back. I never worked with spell check in Illustrator.

I have subscripted to Adobe Cloud and downloaded Photoshop/Illustrator but the default language at that time (in my Adobe Application Manager) was Portuguese so it installed the portuguese version of Photoshop and Illustrator.

Thank you for reaching out. We have created this help article ( -cloud/help/change-install-language.html) that should help you change language settings of your Adobe applications using the Creative Cloud desktop app.

I didn't find the panel you've mentioned. What I have done before the download was to set my language to English (North America) as the picture shows. Is there another plane where I should set the language?

I agree that the PS preferences provide a flexibilty but there are many apps that doesn't have this feature like Ai, Indesign , Dreamweaver etc. so, you are more then welcome to fill in the feature request form asking for this feature.

It's even easier to switch you UI language in Illustrator. Just rename the three folders that frbra1 mentioned to e.g. "en_US" (for the international English UI) or to "de_DE" for German and restart Illustrator - ideally deleting the Preferences by holding down the Shift+Control(Command)+Alt keys.

No, it does explicitely not mean that have to open up the application itself. It just means that you have to rename three folders. (Is that tricky?) If you're unsure, backup these three folders beforehand. It's fast, it's easy, and it does the trick. (What's really weird is that Adobe doesn't offer a menu command to switch the UI language. I'm not sure if this is a design error or if this just has been forgotten during design.)

7. If the system interface in your computer displays the required language, it means that the language you want to be displayed in Adobe Illustrator has already been selected as the default language in your system preferences. In this case, you just need to click the Open button in the Adobe Creative Cloud panel or find the Adobe Illustrator icon in the list of apps and click on it. However, if the system interface in your computer displays a language different from the one that you want to see in Adobe Illustrator, then, you should change the default system language to a desired one and restart your system. After such change, the system interface and all apps will be displayed with the required language.

I am unable to change the Installation language of Illustrator. No matter what I do it always installs itself as English (International). I am trying to change it to Norwegian to record a tutorial. This often happens, but with CC apps it is **** to efficiently try to change app languages. Fiddling with obscure settings files, renaming folders, reinstalling applications, or sometimes being forced to reinstall every single CC app and do a complete cleaning of the system.

I notice the in the CC desktop app that the description of the app is in english, but for some other apps it's in Norwegian. There must be a hidden setting/file somewhere locking it to English. Where can I find this and delete the **** thing? I have now spent two hours trying to change my language. This should not happen.

Changing app language in the Creative Cloud Desktop App to Norwegian, then reinstalling Ai does not help. Reinstalling all of CC does not help. I have tried 10 times. Even on a new user account with the OS language changed to Norwegian just in case.

But, digging around, it should be possible to manually copy over the required files. In C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2020\Support Files\Contents\Windows there is an "en_US"-folder.
Where can I download the files required for Norwegian (nb_NO)?

All of your personal information, including email address, name, and IP address will be deleted from this site. Any feedback you have provided that others have supported will be attributed to "Anonymous". All of your ideas without support will be deleted.

That doesn't change the document's language (let alone the application language which this thread is about). It only changes the language setting that is applied to text. Those influence the spell- and grammar checking.

I went to the Creative cloud, wheel sign at the upper right corner , chose Settings, the tab Apps, and chose English. Then de-installed the Illustrator, restarted the computer and installed the Illustrator anew. Now its interface is in English.

Hungarian would be Magyar I believe.

Question for you. Why does Adobe not call it Hungarian, are there other countries that this applies to? Don't see Romanain or Yugolsavian so guess they use Polish, Mayeb they should call that Slavic.

THe Adobe cloud page was in English for some reason. When I selected my region to Hungary (Magyar), the page changed to Hungarian, but any new page I went from the tarter page was either in English or in Polish.

I have Illustrator currently installed in 2 languages. Changing between them works by changing the system languages. At one point in time I had it installed in 11 languages and could change by changing the system language. Some of the versions I have currently installed are just one language (English). My system is German (DE-de).

this application language in your creative cloud is set to nl_nl but illustrator cannot find the corresponding language resources for it. reinstall illustrator to resolve this problem

I have a frustrating problem with Chinese text in Illustrator. I am updating some graphics by changing English text to Chinese. I have been provided with Chinese translations in a Word document which are all entirely legible (if you read Chinese, of course). I have approached this in 3 ways and all 3 have thrown up problems:

Select and copy text in Word. Double click text in Illustrator so position is preserved, paste text. This sometimes works, but often several characters will be replaced with a crossed box (ie 'no character'). The font is set to SimSun in Word, but for some reason transfers to Kozuka Gothic when pasted. So I try and set the font back to SimSun, but it refuses to change.

Select and copy text in Word. Delete English textbox completely. Paste Chinese text directly into Illustrator. SimSun font is preserved and all characters show... but the text has a huge bounding box extending way out to the right, filled with empty characters. This means I either have to edit each text box and delete those characters, or deal with lots of overlapping bounding boxes.

Most problems with Chinese type resolve by changing the language (that little dropdown at the very bottom of the Character panel) to Chinese. If you change the language of the text frame to Chinese before you paste in the text, you should be okay.

This also holds true for individual CKJ characters in otherwise English text, in both Illustrator and InDesign (and probably Photoshop, although I've not had occasion to find out). You'll see errors unless you change the language of that character (or character style) to the correct one for that character.