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Previewing

Layout Master provides two kinds of previewing. Manual previewing when you want it, and Live previewing (currently in the Macintosh only). The advantage of Live previewing is that you see the effects of your changes almost instantaneously in the browser or browsers you want as soon as you make them. In addition, as we saw above, there is a WYSIWYG editing mode (currently Macintosh only). While this does not reproduce exactly what you see in a web browser, it allows for easier editing when fine tuning is important.

Setting up preview browsers

Of course you'll want to preview your layouts in various browsers. When you first run Layout Master the application finds any copies of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, versions 4 or higher and adds them tot he list of preview browsers list in the Preview in Browser submenu of the Preview menu. So you should be able to just choose one of these browsers and launch it to preview straight away.

You may however at some stage wish to modify this list of preview browsers.

To add or remove web browsers to or from the list of preview web browsers

1. choose Edit Preview Browsers... from the Preview menu (it's a submenu of the Preview in Browser menu item)

the Edit Browser List window opens

figure 16: Edit Browser List window

figure 16: Edit Browser List window

2. click Add Browser, then locate and select the browser application you want to add to the list

3. select a browser from the list and click Remove Browser to remove it from the list

4. click OK to close the window

The browsers that you have selected now appear in the Preview in Browser submenu of the Preview menu.

Previewing in browsers

Next we'll want to preview in our chosen browsers.

To preview in our chosen browsers

1. choose Preview Now from the Preview menu

This will preview the current layout in any of the preview browsers currently open. If you want to open a preview browser, or simply to preview in a particular browser, you can do this too.

To preview in a particular browser (Layout Master will launch it if necessary)

1. choose the name of the browser in the Preview in Browser submenu of the Preview menu

To preview a layout in all the preview browsers currently running

1. click the Preview Now button Preview in the launcher

Live previewing

To set up live previewing

1. choose Live Preview from the Preview menu

Layout Master will update your preview in every selected browser currently running every time you change the layout.

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