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  - I
  - Image
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  - Italic
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  - Li
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  - Loop
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  - Ol
  - Options
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  - Switch
  - Table
  - TableNewPage
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  - Td
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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 topics
  - 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
  - Create and use images with MetaPost
- 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
- Compatibility with other software
- Command reference
  - A
  - Action
  - AddSearchpath
  - AtPageCreation
  - AtPageShipout
  - AttachFile
  - Attribute
  - B
  - Barcode
  - Bold
  - BoldItalic
  - Bookmark
  - Box
  - Br
  - Case
  - Circle
  - ClearPage
  - Color
  - Column
  - Columns
  - Compatibility
  - Contents
  - Copy-of
  - DefineColor
  - DefineColorprofile
  - DefineFontalias
  - DefineFontfamily
  - DefineGraphic
  - DefineMatter
  - DefineTextformat
  - Element
  - Fallback
  - Fontface
  - ForAll
  - Frame
  - Grid
  - Group
  - Groupcontents
  - HSpace
  - 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
  - Pagetype
  - Paragraph
  - PDFOptions
  - PlaceObject
  - Position
  - PositioningArea
  - PositioningFrame
  - ProcessNode
  - Record
  - Regular
  - Rule
  - SaveDataset
  - SavePages
  - SetGrid
  - 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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# 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`, `DefineColor`, `DefineFontalias`, `DefineFontfamily`, `DefineMatter`, `DefineTextformat`, `ForAll`, `Group`, `Hyphenation`, `Include`, `InsertPages`, `Layout`, `LoadDataset`, `Loop`, `Message`, `NewPage`, `NextFrame`, `NextRow`, `Options`, `Output`, `PDFOptions`, `Pageformat`, `Pagetype`, `PlaceObject`, `ProcessNode`, `SaveDataset`, `SavePages`, `SetGrid`, `SetVariable`, `SortSequence`, `Switch`, `Until`, `While`

## Parent elements

`AtPageCreation`, `AtPageShipout`, `Case`, `Contents`, `ForAll`, `Record`, `SavePages`, `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>
                <NewPage/>
            </Loop>
            <SavePages name="firstpage">
                <PlaceObject>
                    <Textblock>
                        <Paragraph>
                            <Value>This will be the first page</Value>
                        </Paragraph>
                    </Textblock>
                </PlaceObject>
            </SavePages>
        </Record>
    </Layout>

## See also

The command `<InsertPages>`, the section Virtual pages and Create table of contents in one go.

- SaveDataset
- SetGrid