Addictive software??

[Ian Branch 121]

It would seem Addictive Software, the makers of the Addict spell checker, are no more. 😞

What does one do now for spell checking in Apps that run on Win 7?

 

Ian

[Edwin Yip 154]

What happened to them? Yes, it seems that the website is no longer available...

[Alexander Sviridenkov 338]

6 hours ago, Ian Branch said:

It would seem Addictive Software, the makers of the Addict spell checker, are no more. 😞

What does one do now for spell checking in Apps that run on Win 7?

 

Ian

Hunspell?

[Sherlock 632]

Last time the site was up was roughly in July of 23 according to the Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230712231651/http://addictive-software.com/index.htm

Sadly the site provided zero information about the manufacturer (like an imprint or some "About us" blaba) and neither does the current registration information https://www.whois.com/whois/addictive-software.com

 

[Fr0sT.Brutal 897]

Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird, Google Chrome, and it is also used by proprietary software packages, like macOS, InDesign, memoQ, Opera and SDL Trados

 

I guess it's more reliable than a proprietary product of a some unknown company

[Anders Melander 1639]

2 hours ago, Fr0sT.Brutal said:

Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird, Google Chrome, and it is also used by proprietary software packages, like macOS, InDesign, memoQ, Opera and SDL Trados

You might want to link to the source when you copy/paste some text verbatim: http://hunspell.github.io/

 

In addition to the Hunspell library itself, the Hunspell dictionary format is also supported by many proprietary 3rd party spell check libraries such as the DevExpress spell checker.

 

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