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


That didn't work with a strange fo message.

net.sf.saxon.trans.XPathException:
org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: "fo:flow" is missing child
elements. Required content model: marker* (%block;)+ (See position
1:-1)

Looking at the example on 13.12,  I'm guessing that you are assuming
that I have already created a titlepage template and added it to my
customization file.  I have not done this (although I plan to).
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageDesign.html#CustomPageSequences

If that is not the case, I'm afraid I really have no idea what the
following line means:

<xsl:with-param name="master-reference">titlepage</xsl:with-param>

Rather than ask you (or someone else) to explain, let me offer my
(probably wrong) guess about what the code you provided does, and you
can tell me how  wrong I am. Are you ready to laugh?!

********************************PROBABLY WRONG!
Docbook lets you add a statement to your customization layer file  to
invoke a blank template called front.cover. In this front.cover
template, you can add extra information which will alter the titlepage
template and in this case, specifically a component of titlepage
called page.sequence. This page.sequence subtemplate will alter the
xsl-fo output from the entire docbook project  so that any  raw
docbook xml appearing inside the <xsl:with-param name="content"> will
slip neatly inside the titlepage template.


********************************END OF PROBABLY WRONG!

Have I told you I am good at writing fiction? :)

Robertr






On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> 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
>> 12777 Ashford Point Dr #1417
>> Houston, Texas 77082
>> 713 893 3424
>> htpt://www.robertnagle.info
>>
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>>
>>
>
>



-- 
Robert Nagle
12777 Ashford Point Dr #1417
Houston, Texas 77082
713 893 3424
htpt://www.robertnagle.info


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