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
- 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
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
Lenghts and units
XPath and Layout Functions (old XPath module)
XPath and Layout Functions (new XPath module)
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
- 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
- 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

Cookbook

In this section concrete applications are shown, with designed data, but with requirements occurring in practice. Three chapters (Table of Contents, Index, and Page X of Y) are implemented using the same mechanism with the XML element structure (chapter Creating XML Structures).