Is there any free software or is there anyway to preview how a document will look once on the mobile device. So for example, a rendering engine for a Blackberry or Android etc. This way I can make my documents tailored to specific devices without having the phones.
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It would depend on the sort of document you were trying to create, and also what software on the phone is opening the document. There are a few different PDF readers on Android that I've used. On Blackberry, I believe the most common document reader is Documents to Go. In my opinion, a PDF is a terrible way to view content on a mobile device.
With that said, what I would do is download the SDKs for each of the platforms. They include an emulator that you can use that runs the OS in a virtual machine.
I would think not, at least I have not heard of anything specific to this. However, closely related approach might be to look at the software development sites/kits for the specific devices / mobile operating systems.
The developer tools will usually have 'emulators' for devices, for testing mobile software and so forth.
So you should be able to use such an emulator mostly like a phone, and so use it to 'preview' stuff in that fashion... ?
It might not always be 100% accurate, especially for developing software, but I think in this case you should get most of the way if not all the way there.