[xep-support] Re: Question on Cover Page

[Jeffrey Walton]

Thanks Kevin.

> Since you need to have some content on the page, juts place
> <fo:block><fo:leader/></fo:block> in the flow of the page.
I want to avoid this. I've wasted far too much time already trying to
make DocBook work.

I can provide an OpenOffice Writer file (ODT), Microsoft Word file
(DOC ro DOCX), or the prebuilt PDF. Writer and Word do not output
formatted objects (I already tried to find it).

Jeff

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Kevin Brown <kevin at renderx.com> wrote:
> Most anything is possible.
>
> Your task is only to customize what you need to do in Docbook.
>
> You would use a one page, page sequence and on that page put the PDF as the
> background-image on the region-before, set the extent of the region-before
> equal to the page height.
>
> Since you need to have some content on the page, juts place
> <fo:block><fo:leader/></fo:block> in the flow of the page.
>
> Use initial-page-number="1" and no-force for the page count on the following
> page sequence that is your content.
>
> Kevin Brown
> RenderX
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xep-support-bounces at renderx.com
> [mailto:xep-support-bounces at renderx.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Walton
> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 7:49 PM
> To: RenderX Community Support List
> Subject: [xep-support] Question on Cover Page
>
> I'm probably grasping at straws for this one, but it never hurts to ask.
>
> I have a one page PDF that I would like to use as a cover page for my
> document. It was created in OpenOffice's Writer, and it has the
> title/subtitle in the fonts I want and it has the logo.
>
> I found there are numbering problems in the document if I use `pdftk` to
> replace the cover page after the book is built. With pdftk, the cover page
> starts numbering at '1' rather than 'i', so the first content page is 6
> rather than 1.
>
> Is it possible to instruct XEP to use my cover page in place of the DocBook
> stuff (specifically, the recto page)?
>
> Thanks in advance.

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