superlou
'PDF Live Preview' implementation
Would it be possible to add a 'PDF Live Preview' feature like the one created for VS Code's Better Fountain?
How does that plugin's behavior differ from what atom-fountain package currently provides?
Well that plugin allows you to see side-by-side and in real time how your Fountain syntax is affecting the printed version of your work.
Instead Fountain for Atom only allows you to create a static PDF preview of your work with CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+M...
Am I right, or did I miss something?
@superlou
Is this enhancement also related to the use of Afterwriting libraries, or is it possible to port something from the VS Code project?
Making live preview refresh on file change is more about how atom-fountain behaves on modification to the text editor with active preview. I had thought there was something like that on save... Or that a discussion was had at some point. Will have to scan previous threads and check the pdf preview logic to clarify.
Back with the old HTML preview generator, the preview was live, but it definitely had a lot of weaknesses. The Afterwriting renderer does a very good job of creating accurate PDFs, but the time required to generate them might become a usability issue. Also, I don't see a straightforward way to keep pages aligned between the markup and PDF for long documents.
One work-around for now is to highlight a section of your script, and use the render hotkey to quickly render just the highlighted portion.
I adopted fountain-atom since a couple of weeks, so I didn't know about the evolution of the package. Now I understand the reasons behind these design choices.
One work-around for now is to highlight a section of your script, and use the render hotkey to quickly render just the highlighted portion.
Wow, I didn't know that! It's not as perfect as live preview, but definitely very practical.
Many thanks for your efforts, the project is extremely useful even as it is!