Feature request: Ability to preview at different scales

[chrsmrtn]

I'm working at MDPI (1x) so when I use this plugin to preview on an XXHDPI (3x) screen, it's too small.

Sketch has the ability to export from MDPI to XXHDPI (3x), so what I do now is export an image at 3x. A folder action picks up the exported image and loads it in Skala Preview. This works pretty well but would love the ability to hit CMD+P in Sketch and have the plugin export at 3x before sending to Skala Preview.

[marcisme]

I spent some time digging around this evening, and I have a few ideas, but I'm still not sure how this would work. Assuming I can figure it out, I have a few questions. I'll use size to mean the 1x, 3x etc to be consistent with the Sketch UI.

• How would you want to specify the preview size? Globally? Per document? Per artboard?
• If a preview size hasn't been explicitly set, what size would you expect previews to use? (I think that currently previews are always 1x no matter what export sizes have been set up. I believe someone else asked about being able to preview at 2x automatically if that were the only export size configured.)
• Would it be desirable to consider the export sizes configured for the current artboard during preview size selection, or would simply selecting from all possible options be good enough or better?

[marcisme]

@chrsmrtn Can you check out the set-preview-size branch, and let me know what you think?

[chrsmrtn]

Hey @marcisme, sorry I meant to reply this morning. I've just tested set-preview-size and that's perfect! I think setting globally was the best option, this way I can hit CMD+P and it appears instantly in Skala Preview (if i've set the wrong size I can always go back and adjust the global setting).

Thanks for your great work!

[marcisme]

Great. Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to get the changes cleaned up and released this coming weekend.