Alison,
Are you editing your personal maker.ini in C:\Users\<your user
name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\16 or FrameMaker's default which
is probably in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2020?
If the former, you might want to close FrameMaker, make a backup copy
of C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\16, delete
the original directory, and restart FrameMaker. Do you still get the
error message about initializing dictionaries?
Most users do not want to reset the LanguageDir option in maker.ini.
By default it is set to "dict" which points to C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2020\dict. This directory contains the
spelling dictionaries available to FrameMaker. Which of these spelling
dictionaries you use depends on the languages set in your paragraph formats.
Winfried's suggestion to reinstall FrameMaker assumes you were
asking about the user interface language used in menus, dialog boxes,
and various templates. Canadian English is not an option for the UI
language, where the possibilities are North American English,
International English, French, German, and Japanese. If you choose North
American English, the default templates do use US English.
Winfried also referred you to the INI Reference manual. You may
recognize the setting you need there.
Do you remember what the setting you want affected? Are you sure it
was in maker.ini?
--Lynne
On 9/9/2021 10:54 AM, A Craig wrote:
Also unfortunately, I cannot remember the exact wording to reset the maker.ini language
to Canadian English from "USEnglish" (see below). I've tried a couple of things
but I'm getting a message that says:
"FrameMaker cannot initialize its dictionaries. Either the
LanguageDir entry specified in the initialization file is missing
or incorrect, or the files in the LanguageDir are missing or
currupted,"
Back when I installed FrameMaker this past spring, I know I edited maker.ini to
use Canadian English and it worked just fine.
--
Lynne A. Price
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
Specializing in structured FrameMaker consulting, application development, and
training
lpr...@txstruct.com http://www.txstruct.com
voice/fax: (510) 583-1505 cell phone: (510) 421-2284
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