Hello,<div>Thank you for your answer. The quick word is that it worked! The back story is that I had to learn a lot about page masters, sequences, the user.pagemasters template, etc. (I am using DocBook XSL 1.75.2).</div><div>
Following the instructions in Bob Stayton's DocBook XSL book saw me through.</div><div>Thank you,</div><div>- Michael</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Kevin Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin@renderx.com" target="_blank">kevin@renderx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If you wish it all the way to the edge (meaning top, bottom, left and right) then put it on the region-before:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000096"><fo:region-before</span><span style="color:#f5844c"> extent</span><span style="color:#ff8040">=</span><span style="color:#993300">"11in"</span><span style="color:#f5844c"> region-name</span><span style="color:#ff8040">=</span><span style="color:#993300">"header-any"</span><span style="color:#f5844c"> background-image</span><span style="color:#ff8040">=</span><span style="color:#993300">"url(‘images/TitlePageBackground.pdf’)"</span><span style="color:#f5844c"> </span><span style="color:#000096">/><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000096"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000096">Kevin Brown<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000096">RenderX</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com" target="_blank">xep-support-bounces@renderx.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com" target="_blank">xep-support-bounces@renderx.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Damkier<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 11, 2013 4:30 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xep-support@renderx.com" target="_blank">xep-support@renderx.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [xep-support] background image on title page<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I have been using XEP for years now and it just works. I have only a couple of times before had a need to write.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Now I have a question that I hope someone can help me with. I want to have a background image on my book title page (the first page of the PDF).<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
I also want to have the image go out to the edge of the page.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I thought I could do something like....<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <xsl:template name="book.titlepage.recto"><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <fo:block margin-left="-2.3cm" margin-top="-2.6cm" background-image="images/TitlePageBackground.pdf"><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<fo:table><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <fo:table-body><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> . . .<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
</fo:table-body><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </fo:table><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </fo:block><u></u><u></u></p></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </xsl:template><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">But that doesn't seem to work.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately, I have almost no knowledge of the title page templates, etc.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">If anyone can lead in the right direction, I would be grateful!<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <br><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Michael Damkier</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><br>
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