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

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

Peter,
A few more things that I remember having to tweak when I set up the cover pages:
You may need to look at the page margin values (there's an excellent illustration on 
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintOutput.html).

I have explicit settings for the following ones:

region.before.extent
header.table.height
body.margin.top
page.margin.top
region.after.extent
footer.table.height
body.margin.bottom
page.margin.bottom
page.margin.inner
page.margin.outer

Also, in the title page XML (which is transformed into a titlepage XSL by 
processing it with the docbook titlepage.xsl and then included in the customization
stylesheet) there are things to consider,
e.g:

<t:titlepage-separator>
  <fo:block break-after="page"/>
</t:titlepage-separator>

<t:titlepage-before t:side="verso">
  <fo:block break-after="page"/>
</t:titlepage-before>

Hope this helps,
BR /Erik R.
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From: Peter Desjardins <peter.desjardins.us@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 6:50 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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