Live preview

See the finished pages as you write: the manuscript, the reading copy or the paperback, laid out exactly as a build would lay it out.

A scene in the editor with the manuscript’s pages beside it, in standard manuscript format.
The preview, following the scene being written.

The preview shows the book’s pages beside the editor, using the same layout as the real build. It updates a moment after you stop typing, before you save, redrawing only the pages that changed, and keeps the scene you’re writing in view. Click a page to open the scene on it.

Choose which build configuration to preview at the top: the submission manuscript, a reading copy, or a paperback’s interior. If the scene you’re writing isn’t in the one you’ve chosen (a draft, say, in a submission that only takes revised scenes), the preview says so and offers one that includes it.

How

  • The Preview button above a scene, or View → Show Preview ⇧⌘V
  • Zoom with −, Fit and +