Re: adding a cover image to the PDF

[Robert Nagle <idiotprogrammer@gmail.com>]

Sorry, one more thing.

The solution I tried DID not work. I'm looking for a quick-and-dirty
solution and perhaps an idea for a template.

I know Bob Staynton has a lot of info about covers and other things in
Chapter 13,

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintCustomEx.html

but I really haven't grokked it yet. (That will be my next project).
But I thought if anyone had a quick-and-dirty solution to my problem,
that would help me for now.

rj



On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Robert Nagle
<idiotprogrammer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, there I need to produce a pre-release of my print book as a PDF.
> It's due tomorrow. �It won't be "totally ready" (and I have not added
> a title page), but I just wanted to include a jpg for the page that
> will be the front cover.
>
> I'm using Apache FOP, although eventually I'll be using XEP.
>
> This seems hard.
>
> Reading through the docs and the mailing list, I tried to do this in
> my xslt file:
>
> *****************************************
> <xsl:template name="front.cover">
> � � � �<mediaobject>
>
> � � � � � �<imageobject role="fo">
> � � � � � � � �<imagedata fileref="fo-images/criteria-tag312.jpg"
> contentwidth="7cm"/>
> � � � � � �</imageobject>
> � � � �</mediaobject>
>
> � �</xsl:template>
>
> � �<xsl:template match="book">
> � � � �<xsl:call-template name="front.cover"/>
> � � � �<xsl:apply-imports/>
> � �</xsl:template>
> *****************************************************************************
> I'm sure I'm missing some subtlety here, but shouldn't be easy as this?
>
> One other thought is that perhaps front.cover needs to be in fo, but
> frankly I have no idea how to go about that.
>
> This is stuff I need to learn pretty soon anyway, but for tomorrow �is
> there a simple and dirty solution to this?
>
> in my index.xml I have this at the top:
>
> �<info>
> � � � �<title>My Book Title �</title>
> � � � �<author>
> � � � � � �<personname>
> � � � � � � � �<firstname>Robert </firstname>
> � � � � � � � �<surname>Nagle </surname>
> � � � � � �</personname>
> � � � �</author>
> � � � �<!--<cover>
> � � � � � �<mediaobject>
>
> � � � � � � � � � �<imageobject role="fo">
> � � � � � � � � � �<imagedata fileref="fo-images/criteria-tag312.jpg"
> contentwidth="7cm"/>
> � � � � � � � �</imageobject>
> � � � � � �</mediaobject>
> � � � �</cover>-->
> ***************************** I tried referencing it here also without success
> � �</info>
>
>
>
> --
> Robert Nagle
> 12777 Ashford Point Dr #1417
> Houston, Texas 77082
> 713 893 3424
> htpt://www.robertnagle.info
>



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