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
Publisher Webservice API
Advanced topics
- Bookmarks
- Enumeration lists
- Creation of XML structures
- Print output / crop marks
- Using CSS with the speedata Publisher
- HTML
- Groups (virtual objects)
- Virtual pages
- Markdown
- Rotation of contents
- Sorting data
- Wrap around images
- Page types
- Attach files to the PDF
- Starting the Publisher via the Hotfolder
- Lua-Filter / pre-processing
- Accessibility / tagged PDF
- 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
- Performance Considerations
Cookbook
- Thumb index
- Embed multipage PDF files
- Layout optimization using groups
- 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
Lengths and units
XPath and Layout Functions
Internal variables
Associate XML editor with schema
- Visual Studio Code
- OxygenXML
speedata Publisher Pro plan
Changelog
Glossary
Compatibility with other software
Compatibility with older versions of the speedata Publisher
Command reference
- Attribute index
- A
- Action
- AddSearchpath
- AtPageCreation
- AtPageShipout
- AttachFile
- Attribute
- B
- Barcode
- Bold
- BoldItalic
- Bookmark
- Box
- Br
- Case
- Circle
- ClearPage
- Clip
- Color
- Column
- Columns
- Compatibility
- Contents
- Copy-of
- DefineColor
- DefineColorprofile
- DefineFontalias
- DefineFontfamily
- DefineGraphic
- DefineMatter
- DefineTextformat
- Element
- Fallback
- Fontface
- ForAll
- Frame
- Function
- Grid
- Group
- Groupcontents
- HSpace
- HTML
- Hyphenation
- I
- Image
- Include
- Initial
- InsertPages
- Italic
- Layout
- Li
- LoadDataset
- LoadFontfile
- Loop
- Makeindex
- Margin
- Mark
- Message
- NextFrame
- NextRow
- NoBreak
- Ol
- Options
- Otherwise
- Output
- Overlay
- Pageformat
- Pagetype
- Param
- Paragraph
- PDFOptions
- PlaceObject
- Position
- PositioningArea
- PositioningFrame
- ProcessNode
- Record
- Regular
- Rule
- SaveDataset
- SavePages
- Section
- SetGrid
- SetVariable
- SortSequence
- Stylesheet
- Span
- StructureElement
- Sub
- Sup
- Switch
- Table
- TableNewPage
- Tablefoot
- Tablehead
- Tablerule
- Td
- Text
- Textblock
- Tr
- Trace
- Transformation
- U
- Ul
- Until
- URL
- Value
- VSpace
- While

Visual Studio Code

The free (and open source) text editor Visual Studio Code (short: VS Code) can be used for many programming languages thanks to numerous extensions. To use the speedata layout schema, the "speedata Publisher" extension is required:

Open the extensions marketplace and search for speedata. Install the "Speedata Publisher" extension.

After installing the extension, speedata Publisher layout files are automatically recognized. A manual association with a schema is no longer necessary. The extension provides auto-completion and validation based on RELAX NG.

If everything worked out fine, a layout with the namespace urn:speedata.de:2009/publisher/en will get the auto-complete with description:

Auto-complete with short description in Visual Studio Code.