jelias / sketch-preview

Sketch plugin to preview mockups in Skala Preview

Introduction

This Sketch plugin provides a preview command (⌘P) that will export the currently selected Artboard and open the resulting image file in Skala Preview. If you prefer, you can name a slice Preview, and that slice will be used instead.

Installation

Copy Preview.jstalk to the Sketch plugin directory. For Sketch 3, this should be:

~/Library/Containers/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Data/Library/Application\ Support/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Plugins

You can open this directory in the Finder with the Plugins -> Reveal Plugins Folder... menu item. Alternatively if you're feeling brave, you can do something like this:

curl https://raw.github.com/marcisme/sketch-preview/master/Preview.jstalk \
    -o ~/Library/Containers/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Data/Library/Application\ Support/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Plugins/Preview.jstalk

If you're still using Sketch 2, your plugin directory should be either of the following for App Store or direct download versions respectively.

• ~/Library/Containers/com.bohemiancoding.sketch/Data/Library/Application\ Support/sketch/Plugins
• ~/Library/Application\ Support/sketch/plugins

Usage

• Make sure you have an Artboard selected

  or

• Create a device screen-sized slice, and name it Preview

Compatibility

This plugin has been used successfully with the following versions of software. Not all combinations of each application have been tested, but this should give you some idea of the latest versions that have worked for other people. Feel free to submit a pull request if you've used the plugin with a newer version of any of these applications.

• Sketch 2.4.4 (5370)
• Sketch 3.0.1 (7597)
• Skala Preview 1.6.0
• Skala View for Andriod 1.2.2

Troubleshooting

Some people have reported problems with the currently selected Artboard not being recognized as selected. I've noticed that in Sketch 2, you may have to select one of the layers within an Artboard as opposed to the Artboard itself. This does not seem to be an issue in Sketch 3.

If you find any other issues, you can try to reproduce them with PreviewTest.sketch, found in the test directory of this repository. You can also edit the plugin file to set DEBUG to true and look at the output in Console.app to get a better idea of what is going on. Please open a new issue if there is still a problem.

Author

Marc Schwieterman (@mschwieterman / @mbs)

Contributors

Big thanks to these people for their contributions.

• Jacob Elias (@_jelias_)
• David Klawitter
• Tomas Linhart

License

MIT License