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- Advanced topcis
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  - Page types
  - Starting the Publisher via the Hotfolder
  - Lua-Filter / pre-processing
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  - Troubleshooting / Debugging
  - Server mode (REST API)
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- Cookbook
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  - Automatically generated directories
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  - Output
  - Overlay
  - Pageformat
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  - Paragraph
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  - Position
  - PositioningArea
  - PositioningFrame
  - ProcessNode
  - Record
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  - SaveDataset
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  - SetGrid
  - SetVariable
  - SortSequence
  - Stylesheet
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  - Switch
  - Table
  - TableNewPage
  - Tablefoot
  - Tablehead
  - Tablerule
  - Td
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  - Textblock
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Search manual

- 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
- Advanced topcis
  - Bookmarks
  - Creation of XML structures
  - Print output / crop marks
  - Using CSS with the speedata Publisher
  - Groups (virtual objects)
  - Virtual pages
  - Rotation of contents
  - Sorting data
  - Wrap around images
  - Page types
  - Starting the Publisher via the Hotfolder
  - Lua-Filter / pre-processing
  - Schema validation
  - Quality assurance and PDF comparison
  - Troubleshooting / Debugging
  - Server mode (REST API)
  - Control of the layout when calling the Publisher
- Cookbook
  - Thumb index
  - Embed multipage PDF files
  - Layout optimization using groups
  - Imitate bulleted lists
  - 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 Layoutfunctions
- Internal variables
- Associate XML editor with schema
  - Visual Studio Code
  - OxygenXML
  - Atom
- Changelog
- Glossary
- Command reference
  - A
  - Action
  - AddSearchpath
  - AtPageCreation
  - AtPageShipout
  - AttachFile
  - Attribute
  - B
  - Barcode
  - Bold
  - BoldItalic
  - Bookmark
  - Box
  - Br
  - Case
  - Circle
  - Color
  - Column
  - Columns
  - Compatibility
  - Contents
  - Copy-of
  - DefineColor
  - DefineColorprofile
  - DefineFontalias
  - DefineFontfamily
  - DefineTextformat
  - Element
  - Fallback
  - Fontface
  - ForAll
  - Frame
  - Grid
  - Group
  - Groupcontents
  - HSpace
  - HTML
  - Hyphenation
  - I
  - Image
  - Include
  - Initial
  - InsertPages
  - Italic
  - Layout
  - Li
  - LoadDataset
  - LoadFontfile
  - Loop
  - Makeindex
  - Margin
  - Mark
  - Message
  - NewPage
  - NextFrame
  - NextRow
  - NoBreak
  - Ol
  - Options
  - Otherwise
  - Output
  - Overlay
  - Pageformat
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  - Paragraph
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  - PlaceObject
  - Position
  - PositioningArea
  - PositioningFrame
  - ProcessNode
  - Record
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  - SavePages
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  - SetVariable
  - SortSequence
  - Stylesheet
  - Span
  - Sub
  - Sup
  - Switch
  - Table
  - TableNewPage
  - Tablefoot
  - Tablehead
  - Tablerule
  - Td
  - Text
  - Textblock
  - Tr
  - Trace
  - Transformation
  - U
  - Ul
  - Until
  - URL
  - Value
  - VSpace
  - While

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# PDFOptions

since version 2.3.39

Set PDF options like number of copies and such

## Child elements

(none)

## Parent elements

`AtPageCreation`, `AtPageShipout`, `Contents`, `Layout`, `Record`, `SavePages`

## Attributes

`author` (text, optional, since version 3.1.18)

  Set the author of the document

`colorprofile` (optional, since version 3.5.7)

  Set the name of the color profile. Has to be defined with DefineColorprofile.

`duplex` (optional, since version 2.3.47)

  Set viewer preference to one or two page printing. Default: empty.

  `simplex`

    One page per sheet

  `duplexflipshortedge`

    Two pages per sheet and flip on short edge

  `duplexfliplongedge`

    Two pages per sheet and flip on long edge

`format` (optional, since version 3.5.7)

  Set the output format. Currently limited to `PDF/X-3`, `PDF/X-4` and `PDF/UA`.

  `PDF/X-3`

    Set the output to `PDF/X-3`.

  `PDF/X-4`

    Set the output to `PDF/X-4`.

  `PDF/UA`

    Set the output to `PDF/UA`.

`keywords` (text, optional, since version 3.1.24)

  Set the keywords of the document (comma separated list).

`numcopies` (number, optional)

  Set the number of copies. At most 5 are allowed in the PDF specification.

`picktraybypdfsize` (optional, since version 2.3.46)

  Activate the check box in the PDF viewer for choosing the paper tray based on the page size.

  `yes`

    Activate checkbox

  `no`

    Deactivate checkbox

`printscaling` (optional, since version 2.3.46)

  Should the printer scale the pages?

  `appdefault`

    Use the default from the PDF viewer

  `none`

    No page scaling

`showbookmarks` (yes or no, optional, since version 3.9.8)

  Show bookmarks in Adobe Acrobat when opening the document.

`subject` (text, optional, since version 3.1.24)

  Set the subject of the document

`title` (text, optional, since version 3.1.18)

  Set the title of the document

## Example

    <PDFOptions numcopies="3"/>

## See also

The section Print output / crop marks.

- Paragraph
- PlaceObject