Introduction
In this chapter you will learn how to develop a document preview, which goes beyond the features a simple preview document that is shown in an external application.
Enhance your File Type Plug-in by Adding Internal Preview Functionality
Instead of launching an external application such as Microsoft Word or Notepad, you can also generate a preview in a window that is embedded in SDL Trados Studio. You can implement a static (internal) preview. This means that the source or target text is displayed within SDL Trados Studio. With this preview type there is no interaction between the side-by-side translation editor and the preview document.
You may also implement a dynamic real-time preview, which is somewhat more sophisticated, because it interacts with the side-by-side editor of SDL Trados Studio. This means that when the user selects a segment in the editor, the corresponding segment in the preview will be highlighted and vice versa.
Example of an internal, real-time preview of a DOC file in SDL Trados Studio:
Since our project will require a number of new items, we recommend that you add a new Preview folder to your Visual Studio project. Within this folder we will later create an internal preview control and additional classes.
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