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This repository contains examples for the speedata Publisher, an OpenSource database publishing system (create a PDF from XML data).

Table of contents

Showcase

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Accessibility
Newspaper layout
Magazine layout
Image shape
TEI text typesetting
Tables
Typesetting on a grid
Typography example
SVG chart inclusion

Introduction examples

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The Hello world example
A very simple table
Data processing with ProcessNode
Data processing with ForAll
Different sources of text markup
Lot's of pages
Table of contents example
Running sums in a table
Text overflow in a text frame
Dictionary like headings

Technical examples

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Base 64 encoded images
Copy fitting with groups
Effect of rotate and origin-x/y
Text-wrapping around objects
Image size and clipping
A generic CSV to XML converter
Database publishing with JSON
Create PDF from Excel files
Manual table splitting
Fun with rotation in tables
Single pass table of contents
How to sort data
Alignment of RTL and LTR text
Creating ZUGFeRD invoices

MetaPost examples

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Page margin
MetaPost Image

Language examples

These require speedata Publisher version 4.1 and above.

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Bengali
Chinese (Simplified Chinese)
Language mix

User contributed examples

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Paragraphs with margin markings

Comparison of documents

Comparison of speedata, LaTeX and Apache FOP (currently only one example).

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Comparison of documents