In Writer for Mac, you can utilize Preview to visualize how your document will appear when exported or printed.
This feature allows you to view the rendering in various Templates. From Preview, you have the options to adjust the fonts, layout, and background color.
You can open Preview from:
Preview can appear as half of the screen side-by-side with the Editor or in full screen.
At full width, you can hide the Editor completely for an ideal reading environment, while half-width is often used by writers who want to keep track of the formatting as they go.
You can resize the Preview:
You can choose between Web or PDF view.
You have more formatting options available for PDF via Settings → Templates. Learn more about that on our dedicated page: Settings.
In the Web view, you can invert the colors to mark the difference between the Editor and Preview.
If the Editor is in light mode, Preview will appear in dark mode and vice versa.
Finally, you can modify the font and layout of the document in the Preview thanks to the Templates:
Preview determines what Export will look like. In the case of PDF, the currently selected typography in the Preview will be used.
If you are familiar with web development, you surely know the inspector tool lets you see parts of the code rendered by the page, such as HTML and CSS.
You can enable the Web Inspector tool in the Preview, in case you wanted to know what’s your document like, under the hood.
To enable Web Inspector in Preview, paste the following command into Terminal:
defaults write pro.writer.mac WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true
In Writer for iPhone, you can utilize Preview to visualize how your document will appear when exported or printed.
This feature allows you to view the rendering in various Templates. From Preview, you have the options to adjust the fonts, layout, and background color.
You can open Preview from:
You can choose between Web or PDF view. You have more formatting options available for PDF via Settings → Templates. Learn more about that on our dedicated page: Settings.
In the Web view, you can invert the colors to mark the difference between the Editor and Preview. If the Editor is in light mode, Preview will appear in dark mode and vice versa.
You can modify the font and layout of the document in the Preview thanks to the Templates via the Toolbar (middle).
Preview determines what Export will look like. In the case of PDF, the currently selected typography in the Preview will be used.
In Writer for iPad, you can utilize Preview to visualize how your document will appear when exported or printed.
This feature allows you to view the rendering in various Templates. From Preview, you have the options to adjust the fonts, layout, and background color.
You can open Preview from:
Preview can appear as half of the screen side by side with the Editor or in full screen. At full width, you can hide the Editor completely for an ideal reading environment, while half width is often used by writers who want to keep track of the formatting as they go.
You can select between Split and Full Preview via the Toolbar with the “template” button.
You can choose between Web mode or PDF mode. You have more formatting options available in PDF mode via Preferences → Templates.
In the Web mode, you can invert the colors to mark the difference between the Editor and Preview. If the Editor is in light mode, Preview will appear in dark mode and vice versa.
You can modify the font and layout of the document in the Preview thanks to the Templates via the Toolbar (via the template button)
Preview determines what Export will look like. In the case of PDF, the currently selected typography in the Preview will be used.
In Writer for Android, you can utilize Preview to visualize how your document will appear when exported or printed.
To open Preview, simply click on ⋮ → Preview within a open document. Go back to the Editor by clicking the arrow ⬅ on the top left.
Preview determines what Export will look like. You can change the rendering of Preview by switching Templates.
The ”template” button let you change the currently selected template. Thanks to those templates, you can modify the font and layout of the rendered document.
In Writer for Windows, you can utilize Preview to visualize how your document will appear when exported or printed.
This feature allows you to view the rendering in various Templates. From Preview, you have the options to adjust the fonts, layout, and background color.
You can open Preview from:
You can choose between Web mode (rendering HTML) or PDF mode: simply toggle ON and OFF the PDF mode on the top right of the Toolbar.
You have more formatting options available in PDF mode via Preferences → Templates. Learn more about that on our dedicated page: Settings.
If you make changes to your document, you can click the refresh button at the bottom right of the PDF preview to see these changes reflected.
In the Web mode, you can invert the colors to mark the difference between the Editor and Preview, as you can see with the top picture of this article (Editor with a white background, Preview with a dark one).
By default, Preview will scroll in parallel with the Editor. If you wish to scroll the panes independently, you can disable the parallel scrolling in File → Preferences → Editor → Synchronize Scroll.
You can modify the font and layout of the document in the Preview thanks to the Templates:
Preview determines what Export will look like. In the case of PDF, the currently selected typography in the Preview will be used.
If you are familiar with web development, you surely know the inspector tool lets you see parts of the code rendered by the page, such as HTML and CSS. You can enable the Web Inspector tool in the Preview, in case you wanted to know what your document is like, under the hood.
On Windows, you can enable the Chromium inspector by using Ctrl J.
More about that in this quick video tutorial:
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