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    <title>Page Layout on speedata Publisher</title>
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      <title>Groups (virtual objects)</title>
      <link>/en/manual/pagelayout/groups/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;One of the most important features of the Publisher is the ability to place objects on a virtual area (Group) in order to subsequently measure them or place them together.&#xA;This virtual area initially has no width and no height.&#xA;The area adapts to the dimensions of the content.&#xA;This allows you to answer questions such as &amp;ldquo;Does the article (with picture and description) still fit on the page?&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;How much do you need to&#xA;reduce font size so that all the text fits on an A4 page?&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Control of the layout</title>
      <link>/en/manual/pagelayout/controllayout/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/en/manual/pagelayout/controllayout/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;If you want to control the behavior of the speedata Publisher without changing any of the files (&lt;code&gt;data.xml&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;layout.xml&lt;/code&gt;), you can do this in two different ways.&#xA;An example is a PDF that is to be output in different page formats (portrait and landscape) or that you provide a print PDF (with bleed) and an online PDF (with smaller images).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Control via variables&lt;span id=&#34;control-via-variables&#34; style=&#34;position:absolute;margin-top:-5rem;&#34;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&#xA;    &lt;a href=&#34;#control-via-variables&#34; class=&#34;heading-anchor&#34; aria-hidden=&#34;true&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea here is to set variables to a certain value before calling them. This is done in the configuration file or on the command line. Example is the following layout (excerpt):&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Prepress</title>
      <link>/en/manual/pagelayout/cutmarks/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;A printable PDF usually differs little or not at all from a PDF that is only read on screen. A few points that should be considered for output to a printer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;dl&gt;&#xA;&lt;dt&gt;Format&lt;/dt&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;While today&amp;rsquo;s screens tend to be in landscape format (16:10 or similar aspect ratios), the usual print page is in portrait format.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;In the command &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Pageformat&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; you should specify the desired size (final format).&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;Bleed marks and bleeding can be controlled separately (see below or the command &lt;a href=&#34;/en/reference/commands/options/&#34;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Options&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dt&gt;Colors&lt;/dt&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;Since printing inks are almost always applied to white paper, they must be indicated differently than on the screen, which makes LEDs light up on a dark background.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;Care should be taken to define all colors either in CMYK color space or in greyscale mode.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;It is possible to convert RGB values into CMYK by calculation, but in practice this only works moderately well.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;How colors are defined is described in the chapter &lt;a href=&#34;/en/manual/colors/&#34;&gt;Colors&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dt&gt;Images&lt;/dt&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;Again, one should take care to only include images in the CMYK color space.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;The Publisher takes over the images without any changes or conversion into the PDF.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;This means that the source material should already be suitable for printing.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;More on image formats and resolution in the chapter &lt;a href=&#34;/en/manual/imagesandgraphics/&#34;&gt;Images &amp;amp; Graphics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dt&gt;Quality (pixel number) of the images&lt;/dt&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;Sometimes it is said that only images with at least 300 DPI (dots per inch) should be included.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;The specification of the DPI number is often nonsensical, as it can be arbitrarily defined in the image.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;It depends on the actual number of pixels per inch according to the scaling in the Publisher.&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;The Publisher can issue a warning if this is below a certain value (attribute “dpiwarn” see &lt;a href=&#34;/en/reference/commands/image/&#34;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Image&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;dt&gt;Fonts&lt;/dt&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;The Publisher automatically embeds all used fonts in the PDF (subsetting - only the actually used letters and characters are embedded).&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;/dl&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Crop marks &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.speedata.de/en/prices/&#34; class=&#34;prolink&#34; data-tooltip=&#34;Available in the Pro plan&#34; data-flow=&#34;top&#34;&gt;PRO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span id=&#34;crop-marks-hahahugoshortcode143s4hbhb&#34; style=&#34;position:absolute;margin-top:-5rem;&#34;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&#xA;    &lt;a href=&#34;#crop-marks-hahahugoshortcode143s4hbhb&#34; class=&#34;heading-anchor&#34; aria-hidden=&#34;true&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no special setting is made, the speedata Publisher creates a PDF which has exactly the size of the specified pages.&#xA;To switch on bleed or crop marks, these must be activated in the element &lt;a href=&#34;/en/reference/commands/options/&#34;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Options&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Thumb index</title>
      <link>/en/manual/pagelayout/thumbindex/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/en/manual/pagelayout/thumbindex/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;figure&gt;&#xA;  &lt;img src=&#34;/img/25-griffmarken.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Left: thumb indexes in the phone book (that still exists!). Right: Lines are less obtrusive, yet practical.&#34;  loading=&#34;lazy&#34; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;/figure&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thumb indexes are marks on the outer edge of a catalog or reference book that indicate the current chapter. A characteristic of the thumb index is that it extends beyond the right or left edge of the paper. This means that the cut edge of the paper is in the colored area, so that the color can be seen even when the paper is closed.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Virtual pages</title>
      <link>/en/manual/pagelayout/virtualpages/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <guid>/en/manual/pagelayout/virtualpages/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;With the Virtual Pages you can create and discard pages, similar to the Virtual Areas (Groups).&#xA;For this purpose there are the commands &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;SavePages&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;InsertPages&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and the layout function &lt;code&gt;sd:count-saved-pages()&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA;The first command has the effect that the output within the command is not written to the PDF.&#xA;With the second command you can output these saved pages.&#xA;The layout function determines the number of saved pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Example&lt;span id=&#34;example&#34; style=&#34;position:absolute;margin-top:-5rem;&#34;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&#xA;    &lt;a href=&#34;#example&#34; class=&#34;heading-anchor&#34; aria-hidden=&#34;true&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Text and an image should be displayed on exactly one page, with the image displayed as large as possible and preferably in the text flow.&#xA;Now the text is to be set with different parameters until the text and image fit exactly on one page, i.e. the page number from &lt;code&gt;sd:count-saved-pages()&lt;/code&gt; gives the value 1.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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