Re: [docbook-apps] PDF recto title page customization adds blank page before the verso title page

[Erik Rask <erik.rask@proceranetworks.com>]

Hello Peter,
I have what I think you describe, a background image stretching to the edges of the recto and a non-empty verso (I have a copyright entry there). I include a sanitized version below (pardon the namespace sloppiness, I have yet to clean that up). I'm not sure why exactly yours does not work, but mine may give some clues to things to try.

<xsl:template name="book.titlepage.recto">
<fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute"
                          width="{$page.width}"
                          height="{$page.height}"
                          top="-({$page.margin.top} + {$body.margin.top})"
                                               left="-({$page.margin.inner})">
  <fo:block>
    <fo:table inline-progression-dimension="100%">
      <xsl:attribute name="background-image"><xsl:value-of select="$custom.image.path" />/images/cover_page_background.jpg</xsl:attribute>
      <fo:table-column column-width="30.5mm"/>
      <fo:table-column column-width="160mm"/>
      <fo:table-column/>
      <fo:table-body>
        <fo:table-row height="100mm">
          <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="3">
            <fo:block/>
          </fo:table-cell>
        </fo:table-row>
        <fo:table-row>
          <fo:table-cell>
            <fo:block/>
          </fo:table-cell>
          <fo:table-cell>
            <fo:block text-align="left" font-size="22pt">
              <xsl:apply-templates mode="book.titlepage.recto.mode" select="bookinfo/subtitle"/>
            </fo:block>
          </fo:table-cell>
          <fo:table-cell>
            <fo:block/>
          </fo:table-cell>
        </fo:table-row>
        <fo:table-row>
          <fo:table-cell>
            <fo:block/>
          </fo:table-cell>
          <fo:table-cell>
            <fo:block text-align="left" font-family="sans-serif" font-size="26pt">
              <xsl:apply-templates mode="book.titlepage.recto.mode" select="bookinfo/title"/>
            </fo:block>
            <fo:block text-align="left" font-family="sans-serif" font-size="8pt">
                  Revision: <xsl:apply-templates mode="book.titlepage.recto.mode" select="bookinfo/revhistory/revision[1]/revnumber"/>
            </fo:block>
          </fo:table-cell>
          <fo:table-cell>
            <fo:block/>
          </fo:table-cell>
        </fo:table-row>
        <fo:table-row height="30mm">
          <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="3">
            <fo:block/>
          </fo:table-cell>
        </fo:table-row>
      </fo:table-body>
    </fo:table>
  </fo:block>
</fo:block-container>
</xsl:template>


Best of luck,
Best regards,
--
Erik Rask
Technical Information Architect
Procera Networks
________________________________________
From: Peter Desjardins <peter.desjardins.us@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 6:50:52 PM
To: DocBook Apps
Subject: [docbook-apps] PDF recto title page customization adds blank page before the verso title page

Hi. I want the cover page of my book PDF to have a full-bleed color
background so I added a fo:block-container that's the same size as the
page and gave it the background-color attribute. This works well and
the cover page looks great, but it also introduces a blank page
between the recto title page and the verso title page.

It seems that there's something about the recto title page that is
spilling over into a new page but doesn't appear there at all.

Has anyone else tried to do something like this? I found that I had to
set negative margins of the block-container above and to the left of
the page in order to center the colored background over the first
page.

I feel like I'm grasping at straws and really should understand what's
going on much more clearly.

Here's my customization for the book title page:

  <xsl:template name="book.titlepage.recto">
    <xsl:element name="fo:block-container">
      <xsl:attribute name="width">8.5in</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="height">11in</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="margin-left">-1.25in</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="margin-top">-0.75in</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="background-color">#ff4c00</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:element name="fo:block">
        <xsl:attribute name="margin-top">6in</xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:attribute name="margin-left">2in</xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:element name ="fo:external-graphic">
          <xsl:attribute name="content-width">2in</xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:attribute name="src">
            <xsl:text>url(mylogo.svg)</xsl:text>
          </xsl:attribute>
        </xsl:element>
      </xsl:element>
      <xsl:element name="fo:block-container">
        <xsl:attribute name="margin-top">.2in</xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:attribute name="margin-left">.35in</xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:element name="fo:block">
          <xsl:attribute name="color">#ffffff</xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:attribute name="text-align">left</xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:attribute name="font-size">22pt</xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:attribute name="font-family">sans-serif</xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:attribute name="font-weight">400</xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:value-of select="//d:book/d:info/d:title" />
        </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>


Thanks!

Peter

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