Adobe Community: How can I change Illustrator language to English?

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1. Wade_Zimmerman,

Sep 7, 2012 6:57 PM in reply to MarcosACLima

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You might have to reset the preferences also at the bottom of the characcter panel there is a selection for the language, if it is set to Portuguese currently change it to english

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2. Manish-Sharma,

Sep 8, 2012 12:12 PM in reply to Wade_Zimmerman

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@Wade , isn't the language in the character pallete is the spell check language for the document /text ?

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3. Ton Frederiks,

Sep 8, 2012 1:15 PM in reply to MarcosACLima

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On the Macintosh I have to change the system language to get the corresponding application language.

I have 2 versions installed using the preferences in the Application Manager; at first English and later Dutch.

When I set the System language in Language and Text in the System Preferences to Dutch and log in again the language changes.

See also: Installing Multiple Languages of a Desktop Application

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs6-creative-cloud-feature-tour-for-design/i nstalling-multiple-languages-of-a-desktop-application/

Ton

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4. MarcosACLima,

Sep 8, 2012 2:48 PM in reply to Wade_Zimmerman

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Wade

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?

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5. MarcosACLima,

Sep 8, 2012 2:57 PM in reply to Ton Frederiks

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Ton

Changing Mac's language made it work. Thanks

But I think it's a little annoying to always have to change Mac language in order to set Illustrator language. Is there any other way to set it without having to mess with my mac's language?

Best

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6. Ton Frederiks,

Sep 8, 2012 3:10 PM in reply to MarcosACLima

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Not that i know of.

Looks like a feature request:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

regards,

Ton

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7. Manish-Sharma,

Sep 8, 2012 3:45 PM in reply to Ton Frederiks

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By default the AAM picks the language of the Operating System , which happened at the intial stage and caused this issue.

On changing the language of the AAM preferences and re-installation ideally should have worked and indeed for the PS but not for the Illustrator unfortunatly.

So , what has happened here with the Illustrator is you have 2 laguage pack installed Portugese and English and it is picking the language based on the system locale.

Log in the account (default user account) in which you want the Illustrator to be in English language , uninstall Illustrator and all Cs6 apps ,

Run the Cleaner tool :- www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Install the Illustartor with the correct language set in the AAM preferences.

There will be no need to switch the OS language as there would be just English language pack to launch.

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8. Ton Frederiks,

Sep 8, 2012 4:08 PM in reply to Manish-Sharma

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That is an interesting way to install a specific language while the OS language is different.

Unfortunately you cannot switch languages then.

I prefer the Photoshop way: install the languages you want with AAM and just switch between them in the Photoshop Preferences. It just requires a Photoshop restart to switch.

I think I will fill in the feature request form myself :-)

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9. Manish-Sharma,

Sep 8, 2012 4:13 PM in reply to Ton Frederiks

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Ton Frederiks wrote:

That is an interesting way to install a specific language while the OS language is different.
Unfortunately you cannot switch languages then

You can and that what is happening here with the Illustrator/

When OS language is Portugese then the illustartor language is Portugese becuase Illustrator is installed with the portugese language here first.

but when we re-installed it in English and then switched the OS language to the English , Illustrator was in English.

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.

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10. Manish-Sharma,

Sep 8, 2012 4:19 PM in reply to Manish-Sharma

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Check this :-

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/creative-cloud-trial-mode.htm l

So , people with english-only subscription doesn't need the English OS , they can have the OS in different language.

The product need to be installed with the language you want disregard of the OS language.

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11. MarcosACLima,

Sep 10, 2012 6:06 AM in reply to Manish-Sharma

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Manish

Thanks a lot.

Your answer complemented wonderfuly what Ton said and I've done exactly what you said and now I have a Mac in Portuguese and Illustrator in English as I wanted.

So, to sumarize the answer:

1) Uninstall previous and current version of Illustrator.

2) Run CleanerTool to be sure that there isn't any file left behind.

3) Change Adobe Application Manager to the language you want to install Illustrator (in my case, North American English). I changed my Mac language (just in case) to English too.

4) Download and install Illustrator.

5) Change Mac language back to original language.

Thanks again for all support in this forum.

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