Re: [docbook-apps] Footer background color for pront output

In the .fo file I do indeed see "instart-body," and in the list of attributes for the odd, even, and first I do indeed see the background-color attribute that I specified, but the resultant PDF has no color there.

Alan

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Bob Stayton <> wrote:

Hi Alan,

That template looks like it should work.  Can you peak in your .fo file to see if the new page master is being 
referenced?  For a body page-sequence, you should see:

 

<fo:page-sequence  master-reference="instart-body" 
...>

 

If you see "body", then the selection process is not 
working.  If you see "instart-body", then the custom page-master is not 
working.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


From: Alan Oehler 

Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:05 PM

To: docbook-apps 

Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Footer background color for pront 
output

Took me a while to get back to this.  

Bob, I followed the documentation that you referred to, and added a 
background-color attribute to the fo:region-after elements. It doesn't seem to 
do a thing. 

Here's the logic I put in to decide whether to use the default or the 
custom page-masters:

<xsl:template 
name="select.user.pagemaster">

  <xsl:param 
name="element"/>

  <xsl:param 
name="pageclass"/>

  <xsl:param 
name="default-pagemaster"/>

  <!-- Return my customized 
title page master name if for body,

       otherwise 
return the default -->

  <xsl:choose>

    <xsl:when 
test="$default-pagemaster = 'body'">

      <xsl:value-of 
select="'instart-body'" />

    
</xsl:when>

    
<xsl:otherwise>

      <xsl:value-of 
select="$default-pagemaster"/>

    
</xsl:otherwise>

  </xsl:choose>

  
</xsl:template>

I suspect I am not selecting my custom one properly and it's using the 
default - but I can't see why. Any ideas?

Alan

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Alan Oehler <> wrote:

  
Bob,  
  

  
Thanks! I'll give it a look-over.

  

  
Alan

  

  

  

  
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Bob Stayton <> wrote:

  
    

    
Hi Alan,

    
That area is defined by the fo:region-after in the 
    fo:simple-page-masters in fo:pagesetup.xsl.  There is no attribute-set 
    for that region, but you can create your own custom page-masters, and add 
    the background-color to that fo:region-after element.  Customing 
    page-masters is described here:

    
 

    
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageDesign.html#DeclarePageMasters

    
 

    
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


    

    

    

    
From: Alan Oehler 

    
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:17 PM

    
To:  

    
Subject: [docbook-apps] Footer background color for pront 
    output

    

    

    

    
Hi, 
    

    
I'm having some trouble trying to figure out how to set up my footer 
    for print output to have its background color set. I can add it to the 
    footer.content.properties attribute set, but that only sets the background 
    color of the displayed text - kind of like in HTML setting the background 
    color attribute for the text in a div rather than for the div itself. 
     In other words, I want the entire lower 15% or so of the printed page 
    to have a different background color than the rest of the page.

    

    
Any hints?

    

    
Thanks!
    

-- 

    
Alan C. Oehler 
    
Senior Technical Writer | Instart Logic

    
M: 650.504.7003
www.instartlogic.com

  

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Alan C. Oehler 
  
Senior Technical Writer | Instart Logic

  
M: 650.504.7003
www.instartlogic.com

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Alan C. Oehler 

Senior Technical Writer | Instart Logic

M: 650.504.7003
www.instartlogic.com

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Alan C. Oehler
Senior Technical Writer | Instart Logic

M: 650.504.7003
www.instartlogic.com