Re: [docbook-apps] Graphics in print title page

Thanks Scott,

I have followed your advice and used the custom layout through the
customization layer. The image appeared on the title page. However, I
can't resize it, it always appears scaled up to the width of the
paragraph, that is, the fo:block. I have specified the WIDTH parameter
of the image but this didn't work.

How did you cope with it?

Rgds,

-Z

On 6/13/05, scott <> wrote:

Hello, 

 

I was having some problems with this not
too long ago. 

 

The best way to add the Logo is to take
control of the title page and load a graphic by putting this into your
customization layer style sheet. 

 

Otherwise you only have really limited
formatting capability. 

 

 

Take a look at Bob Stayton's book on
this page: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TitlePagePrint.html#TitlepageTableLayout
.
if you copy the markup into your customization layer and then slowly customize
it for your own documentation (path names…), it should work. 

 

Here you have to use FO markup to add a
graphic. The tag for this is <fo:external-graphic src="url(yourcompanylogo)"/>.
You put this in between the <fo:block></fo:block> tags in your
custom title page. 

 

Let me know if you would like a code
sample.

 

Regards,

Scott

 

Scott Speights

O3SIS IT AG



 

From: Zbyszek Cybulski
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Sent: 13 June 2005 15:15

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Subject: [docbook-apps] Graphics
in print title page

 

Hi,

I can't get the company logo on the title page of a book.

I have followed the guidelines from the Bob's book as well as the list archive
but failed. There is no graphics on the title page in PDF.

My attempt is as follows:

source

book.xml

-------

<book>

    <bookinfo>

       
<title><trademark>Product</trademark> Name</title>

       
<subtitle>More</subtitle>

        <mediaobject> <!-- LOGO
goes here -->

           
<imageobject>

               
<imagedata fileref="img/logo.png" format="PNG"
width="5cm"/>

           
</imageobject>

        </mediaobject>

        <authorgroup>

           
<corpauthor>The company</corpauthor>

        </authorgroup>

       
<legalnotice>...</legalnotice>

       
<copyright>...</copyright>

    </bookinfo>

  <chapter>...</chapter>

</book>

customization layer:

book.xsl

------

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

  xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

  <xsl:import href=""file:///d:/docbook/xsl/fo/docbook.xsl"/>

  <xsl:import href=""file:///d:/public/docs/custom-titlepage.xml"/>

[other customizations]

</xsl:stylesheet>

titlepage spec file

custom-titlepage.xml (top portion)

------

[entity definitions]

  <t:titlepage t:element="book"
t:wrapper="fo:block">

    <t:titlepage-content t:side="recto">

      <title

        
t:named-template="division.title"

        
param:node="ancestor-or-self::book[1]"

         text-align="center"

         font-size="&hsize5;"

        
space-before="&hsize5space;"

         font-weight="bold"

         font-family="{$title.fontset}"/>

      <subtitle

        text-align="center"

        font-size="&hsize4;"

       
space-before="&hsize4space;"

              
font-family="{$title.fontset}"/>

      <mediaobject/>

      <corpauthor
font-size="&hsize3;"

          keep-with-next.within-column="always"

          space-before="2in"/>

      <authorgroup
space-before="2in"/>

      <author font-size="&hsize3;"

         
space-before="&hsize2space;"

         
keep-with-next.within-column="always"/>

    </t:titlepage-content>

[other templates]

</t:templates>

What is wrong with them? I have no idea what to fix. I have checked the FO
output, there is no reference to the logo.png file. Should I customize anything
else to get the image in the title page?

In addition, I have a problem with the font on the title and subtitle on recto
and verso sides of the title page. I can't force the transformation to use, for
example the font "Impact" in blue. I have examined the XSL-FO output
and the font family for title and subtitle is "sans-serif" while trademark
is "serif". Maybe it isn't a big issue but I would like them printed
with the same font family and the same color. 

Bob's book demonstrates many methods to customize the title page but none of
them worked for me. Likely I'm still too new to XSL-FO and Docbook
customization.

I use DocBook 4.4 DTD, XSL 1.68, XEP 4.3 on Windows 2000.

Any help appreciated.

Zbyszek