Previewing files
You can preview your Web pages and test your links directly in GoLive. You can also preview QuickTime movies, animated GIFs, or any other plug-in media items that GoLive supports. Using the Live Rendering window, you can preview changes you make in the Layout Editor on the fly. Layout preview approximates what your page looks like when it's finally published on the Web. You can also preview PDF files you create or open in GoLive. (See Exporting Web pages to PDF.)
In addition to previewing your page in GoLive, you should always preview it using a variety of browsers, browser versions, and platforms. You'll need to use browsers to determine potential browser differences and to preview JavaScript, DHTML, or other items for which GoLive doesn't provide native support. If desired, you can start a browser such as Safari, Opera, Netscape Navigator, or Microsoft Internet Explorer, from within GoLive by first adding it to the Preview in Browser menu in the toolbar. You can also view a browser simulation of your page in the Layout Editor by choosing the profile of a specific Web browser in the View palette. (See Setting view options for page layout.)
To preview your page in Layout Preview: - Make sure that Preview Mode is activated in the Modules Preferences: Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or GoLive > Preferences (Mac OS), select Modules in the left pane of the Preferences dialog box, select Preview Module in the right pane, and click OK.)
- Click the Preview tab in the document window.
- To check your page layout, scroll the document window. To test your links, click all of the hot spots on your page. GoLive opens each referenced page in either the Preview pane or in its own window.
Note: To use Layout Preview in Adobe GoLive for Windows, you need Microsoft Internet Explorer installed on your computer.
To preview your page in Live Rendering: - Do one of the following:
- Open the page you want to preview and choose File > Preview In > Live Rendering.
- Choose File > Preview In > Live Rendering, and use the pick whip
or click the Browse button to open a page. - Choose File > Preview In > Live Rendering, choose Load from the Live Rendering window menu, and then select a page in the Choose File to Render dialog box.
Changes you make in the Layout Editor are reflected in the Live Rendering window after you click in the Live Rendering window. If you have multiple document windows open, the Live Rendering window previews the currently selected document.
To set Live Rendering window options: Choose one of the following from the Live Rendering window menu: - Choose Load to open a file from the Choose File to Render dialog box.
- Choose Reload to reflect changes you've made in the Layout Editor (use this option if you've deselected Auto Update).
- Choose Auto Update to ensure that the Live Rendering window displays changes you make in the Layout Editor when you click in the Live Rendering window (this option is selected by default). If Auto Update isn't selected, you'll need to choose Reload after you make a change in the Layout Editor.
- Choose Bound to bind the Live Rendering window to a specific document: select the open document you want to preview, and then choose Bound from the Live Rendering window menu.
To set up preferences for previewing in browsers: - Make sure that each browser is installed on your hard disk and that all plug-ins you need for previewing are placed in the browser's Plug-ins folder (or any other location your browser uses for multimedia extensions).
- Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or GoLive > Preferences (Mac OS), and click the Browsers icon in the left pane of the Preferences dialog box.
- Do one of the following:
- To add all browsers on your hard disk to the browser list, click Find All.
- To add a single browser, click Add. Then select the browser, and click Open (Windows), or click Add and then click Done (Mac OS).
- Select one or more browsers in the scrolling window that you want to be started when you click the Preview in Browser button
on the toolbar or choose File > Preview In > Default Browser. Note: Most browsers only allow you to open one version at a time. For example, you can open Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer at the same time, but not Netscape Navigator 4.0 and 7.0. When two or more types of browsers are selected in the Browsers preferences, such as Navigator and Internet Explorer, a generic browser icon appears on the toolbar. When only a single type of browser is selected, such as Navigator 4.0, the program icon of that browser appears on the toolbar.
- To delete a browser from the scrolling window, select it and click Remove.
- Click OK.
To preview your page in a browser: Do one of the following: - To preview the page in the browser or browsers that you have selected in the Browsers preferences, click the Preview in Browser button
on the toolbar, or choose File > Preview In > Default Browser. - To preview the page in a single browser that you've set up in the Browsers preferences, choose the browser from the Preview in Browser menu on the toolbar. Or, choose a browser from the File > Preview In submenu.
Preview in Browser button and pop-up menu
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