Main page
Introduction
Hello, world!
Basics
- How to write the layout
- Structure of the data file and the layout rules
- Outputting objects
- Grid
- Areas on the page (PositioningArea)
- File organization
- Hyphenation / language settings
- Using fonts
- Text formats
- Text formatting
- Colors
Programming
Image inclusion
Tables
Advanced topics
- Bookmarks
- Creation of XML structures
- Print output / crop marks
- Using CSS with the speedata Publisher
- Groups (virtual objects)
- Virtual pages
- Rotation of contents
- Sorting data
- Wrap around images
- Page types
- Starting the Publisher via the Hotfolder
- Lua-Filter / pre-processing
- Schema validation
- Quality assurance and PDF comparison
- Troubleshooting / Debugging
- Server mode (REST API)
- Control of the layout when calling the Publisher
- Create and use images with MetaPost
Cookbook
- Thumb index
- Embed multipage PDF files
- Layout optimization using groups
- Imitate bulleted lists
- Automatically generated directories
- Create table of contents in one go
- Page numbers: Page x of y
Installation instructions
File name in the Publisher
speedata Publisher defaults
Running the speedata publisher on the command line
How to configure the speedata publisher
Lenghts and units
XPath- and Layoutfunctions
Internal variables
Associate XML editor with schema
- Visual Studio Code
- OxygenXML
- Atom
Changelog
Glossary
Compatibility with other software
Command reference
- A
- Action
- AddSearchpath
- AtPageCreation
- AtPageShipout
- AttachFile
- Attribute
- B
- Barcode
- Bold
- BoldItalic
- Bookmark
- Box
- Br
- Case
- Circle
- Color
- Column
- Columns
- Compatibility
- Contents
- Copy-of
- DefineColor
- DefineColorprofile
- DefineFontalias
- DefineFontfamily
- DefineGraphic
- DefineMatter
- DefineTextformat
- Element
- Fallback
- Fontface
- ForAll
- Frame
- Grid
- Group
- Groupcontents
- HSpace
- Hyphenation
- I
- Image
- Include
- Initial
- InsertPages
- Italic
- Layout
- Li
- LoadDataset
- LoadFontfile
- Loop
- Makeindex
- Margin
- Mark
- Message
- NewPage
- NextFrame
- NextRow
- NoBreak
- Ol
- Options
- Otherwise
- Output
- Overlay
- Pageformat
- Pagetype
- Paragraph
- PDFOptions
- PlaceObject
- Position
- PositioningArea
- PositioningFrame
- ProcessNode
- Record
- Regular
- Rule
- SaveDataset
- SavePages
- SetGrid
- SetVariable
- SortSequence
- Stylesheet
- Span
- Sub
- Sup
- Switch
- Table
- TableNewPage
- Tablefoot
- Tablehead
- Tablerule
- Td
- Text
- Textblock
- Tr
- Trace
- Transformation
- U
- Ul
- Until
- URL
- Value
- VSpace
- While

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