Spell Check in X-Pro

Is there a spell check feature or plug-in for Extreme Pro.

I can't seem to locate it. Maybe I'm missing something

Thanks in advance
Danny

Something that has been on the wish list for a long time....but no, there is no spell check in XXPro.

Eric

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Originally Posted by bcire68

....but no, there is no spell check in XXPro.

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Thankfully! That's a typical El Bloato feature and the last thing we need more of -- for every Windows graphics user probably has 4-5-6 spell checkers installed already, built into our email apps, word processing apps, page layout apps.

OK AI CS has got a spell checker but this programme is a VECTOR DRAWING programme not a DTP one. If you are doing a newsletter you prepare your work in word and then copy & paste it into X Pro your new multi page doc. All reviews wax lyrically over Xara speed, we all like its speed so why change? AI forth comming upgrade, and this is what the upgrade is all about, is about restoring its lost speed since ver. 8. Now isn't that terrible the major reason for an upgrade is to restore its speed which has been lost, and this is the time when the raw computing power has increased so much over the last 4 years. Now we have a programme which runs rings around AI in boot up time, redraw time with vetors and bitmaps so why try and slow it down by increasing its processing time. This plea comes from an ex technical teacher who can not spell to save himself without a spell checker. If you can say to me, "this will not slow Xara down", then fine but if it does then I would not be interested in the upgrade as this is the main reason for using this programme. I am forced to use AI at work and have become accustomed to using it, and yes even its pen tool, but i still return to Xara with my freelance work and my own perrsonal work for the joy of not running out of RAM, hard disc space or processing speed and the joy of using the Shape Editing Tool in Xara. Now I know that Charles looks and listens to this forum and impliments the requests listed here but please Charles if the spell checker slows down this programme then think again.

Albacore, I couldn't agree with you more.

I do ALL my writing in Word, so I can chedk spelling and grammar in both English and Spanish. Along with insertion of page numbers, footnotes, etc.

Word does these things well, along with automatic text flow in columns, and a host of other DTP features. Once this is done, I go to Xara.

Then I go to Xara.

As one of my clients commented, "You make it nice in Word, then you make it POW in Xara!"

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Will

With all the new functions with Pro it would make life a lot easier. There really is no need for word if this program has spell check. Why open another program when Pro can do it all. I can't image that spell checker would bog down the system that much but what do I know I'm not a software designer.

Anyway, the previous post don't really answer my question about a plug-in, is there one?

Danny

Danny have a look at this little app. which you can turn off & on when required:http://tinyspell.m6.net/

Albacore,
I have been using TinySpell for a while now mainly with small word and text processors. It works like a charm with X Extreme and I am sure it will work with Pro. It seems to work with anything and once set up you forget it until you make a mistake and it goes "ping". It checks spelling in whatever program you are in. For example I was using Excel this evening and it worked there as usual.
It is a a great little program.
Erik

Not that theyre free, but there's also

http://www.asutype.com/

and

http://www.blazingtools.com/sta.html

or

http://www.wamasoft.com/

Thanks Albacore and Tallis

Danny

I don't want XXPro slowed down either.

I do pleanty of things in word before importing them into Xara, like typing in extended characters and spell-checking. That doesn't mean that I want to do them there, just that I have had to.

If (as suggested in the original post) this were added as a plugin, users could choose to load the plugin or not.

Just my thoughts on the subject.

Eric

Albacore,

Does this progam have an English(UK) spell checker?

Don't know Egg never downloaded programme. Have always had the dicipline to work in word and then import into what package I am using, from InDesign, Excel right through to Illy and Xara. I know what you are going to say why use that method in InDesign it has a great spell checker my only answer is I only have to use or have one custom dictionary (spellchecker) and I do it all the time its habit now. Another reason for giving info out even when I don't use the software, I am slightly hacked off at the moment with all the moaning that goes on in this forum, I am not really moaning at this thread as I think this is quite a reasonable request especially now since Pro's linked text fields were introduced, but there are a lot of folk expecting away too much from a vector drawing package and the price that they are asked to pay is about the same as an Adobe Classroom Book for AI, PS or ID

Thanks Albacore. I'm not a great lover of Spell Checkers coming with every program. Ideally they should be a module of the OS. I used to use a tiny program called iFinger which I found invaluable, but unfortunately it doesn't operate fully under XP.

Egg,

The free version TinySpell has an American English dictionary with 110,000+ words in it. TinySpell+ can also have English spell checker. TinySpell+ is the upmarket version of the free TinySpell. Upmarket in that it costs $7 or whatever you agree to!!

Even though the free version is American English it seems to work for most English spoken here in OZ.

Erik

I have copied the following from the Help section of TinySpell.

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Supports change of dictionary (unofficial):

tinySpelI+ comes with an American-English dictionary. Other dictionaries are available, in principle, however the company that licenses them (LexSaurus Software, Inc.) apparently does not do it any more. So if you can somehow obtain a copy of a dictionary (consists of two files: n71.lex and n00.sup, see below) you just need to copy it to the tinySpell directory. You may find in our forum links to dictionaries that were found by other users.

Note: due to some Windows limitations, tinySpell does not handle "dead keys" properly. A dead key is a key that produces no output when it is pressed, but modifies the output of the next key pressed after it. Dead keys are commonly used in European keyboards to generate letters with accents (diacritics). A word that contains a character that was produced with a dead key might be (wrongly) marked as a misspelled word by tinySpell, and a replacement word that contains an accented character that requires a dead key might be inserted without this character.

The additional dictionaries are (file names in parenthesis):

British (271.lex, 200.sup)

French (371.lex, 300.sup)

German (471.lex, 400.sup)

Spanish (571.lex, 500.sup)

Italian (671.lex, 600.sup)

Dutch (771.lex, 700.sup)

Swedish (871.lex, 800.sup)

Danish (971.lex, 900.sup)

Norwegian (1071.lex, 1000.sup)

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