Re: [docbook-apps] adding a cover image to the PDF

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Robert,
The existing template that matches on book in fo/division.xsl already calls the 
template named "front.cover", so you don't need that bit.  For the other template, I 
think all you need to add is putting the content into a page-sequence, which can be 
done with the utility template named "page.sequence" created for that purpose.  An 
example of its usage is here:

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

In your case, it might look like this:

<xsl:template name="front.cover">
  <xsl:call-template name="page.sequence">
    <xsl:with-param name="master-reference">titlepage</xsl:with-param>
    <xsl:with-param name="content">
      <mediaobject ...
    </xsl:with-param>
  </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nagle" <idiotprogrammer@gmail.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 8:13 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] adding a cover image to the PDF


> 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
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