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

Table of contents

• Showcase
  • Accessibility · Newspaper layout · Magazine layout · Image shape · TEI text typesetting · Tables · Typesetting on a grid · Typography example · SVG chart inclusion
• Introduction examples
  • Hello world · Simple table · ProcessNode · ForAll · Text markup sources · Mail merge · Table of contents · Running sums · Text overflow · Dictionary headings
• Examples from the manual
  • Simple table with automatic breaking · Controlling column widths · Continuation head · Manual table breaking · Data sheet scaffold · Table of contents · Keyword index
• Technical examples
  • Base64 images · Copy fitting · Rotate · Wrap around objects · Image clipping · CSV reader · JSON reader · XLSX reader · Table splitting · Table rotation · Single pass TOC · Sorting data · Mixed text alignment · ZUGFeRD invoices · Column widths: percent, stars, min, max, ? · Tab stops · Table with CSS
• MetaPost examples
  • Page margin · MetaPost Image
• Language examples
  • Bengali · Chinese · Language mix
• User contributed examples
  • Paragraphs with margin markings
• Comparison of documents
  • Frog King

Showcase

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

Introduction examples

Description	Preview
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

Examples from the manual

These examples accompany the how-to guides in the manual.

Description	Preview
Simple table with automatic breaking
Controlling column widths
Continuation head and continuation note
Breaking complex tables manually
Basic structure of a data sheet
Table of contents
Keyword index

Technical examples

Description	Preview
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
Column widths: percent, stars, min, max, ?
Tab stops
Styling a table with CSS

MetaPost examples

Description	Preview
Page margin
MetaPost Image

Language examples

These require speedata Publisher version 4.1 and above.

Description	Preview
Bengali
Chinese (Simplified Chinese)
Language mix

User contributed examples

Description	Preview
Paragraphs with margin markings

Comparison of documents

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

Description	Preview
Comparison of documents