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

[Alan Oehler <aoehler@instartlogic.com>]

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 <bobs@sagehill.net> 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
bobs@sagehill.net

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 <aoehler@instartlogic.com> wrote:

Bob, 

Thanks! I'll give it a look-over.

Alan

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> 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
bobs@sagehill.net

From: Alan Oehler

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

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

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!

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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

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Alan C. Oehler

Senior Technical Writer | Instart Logic

M: 650.504.7003
www.instartlogic.com