SavePages
This command is used for two different but similar purposes.
1: Everything enclosed in SavePages is saved internally and not placed into the PDF. Useful if the output might be discarded.
2: “Future mode”: Create pages that have been previously reserved by InsertPages .
Child elements
AddSearchpath , AttachFile , Bookmark , ClearPage , Copy-of , DefineColor , DefineFontalias , DefineFontfamily , DefineMatter , DefineTextformat , ForAll , Group , Hyphenation , Include , InsertPages , Layout , LoadDataset , LoadFontfile , Loop , Message , NextFrame , NextRow , Options , Output , PDFOptions , Pageformat , Pagetype , PlaceObject , ProcessNode , SaveDataset , SavePages , Section , SetGrid , SetVariable , SortSequence , StructureElement , Switch , Until , Value , While
Parent elements
AtPageCreation , AtPageShipout , Case , Contents , ForAll , Loop , Otherwise , Record , SavePages , Until , While
Attributes
name(text)- The name of the discarded output (1) or for the reserved pages (2). For later/earlier retrieval with InsertPages .
Remarks
The second mode has been introduced in version 3.7.12.
Example
First mode:
<Record element="data">
<SavePages name="foo">
<Loop select="100">
<PlaceObject>
<Textblock>
<Paragraph><Value>Hello world</Value></Paragraph>
</Textblock>
</PlaceObject>
</Loop>
</SavePages>
<Message select="sd:count-saved-pages('foo')"/>
<InsertPages name="foo"/>
</Record>
“Future mode”
<Layout xmlns="urn:speedata.de:2009/publisher/en"
xmlns:sd="urn:speedata:2009/publisher/functions/en">
<Pageformat height="5cm" width="5cm"/>
<Record element="data">
<InsertPages name="firstpage" pages="1"/>
<Loop select="4" variable="n">
<PlaceObject>
<Textblock>
<Paragraph>
<Value select="$n" />
</Paragraph>
</Textblock>
</PlaceObject>
<ClearPage />
</Loop>
<SavePages name="firstpage">
<PlaceObject>
<Textblock>
<Paragraph>
<Value>This will be the first page</Value>
</Paragraph>
</Textblock>
</PlaceObject>
</SavePages>
</Record>
</Layout>