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ManUO
ManUO

Reputation: 347

DITA PDF rendition cover page customization

I am trying to include the content of the below dita topic file on my cover page, but so far I have not been able.

The file that I need to include on the cover page is located on the local system and is referenced by the bookmap.

I am using DITA-OT 1.4.2 along with RenderX Xep.

I need to use this because I have a few books to render to PDF and the cover page change based on the book.

Here is my cover page content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
<topic xmlns:ditaarch="http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/"
       outputclass="frontmatter"  id="topic010"
       ditaarch:DITAArchVersion="1.0"
       domains="(topic ui-d) (topic hi-d) (topic pr-d) (topic sw-d)                          (topic ut-d)"
       class="- topic/topic ">
   <title class="- topic/title ">Front Matters</title>
   <body class="- topic/body ">
      <image width="500"
             id="image_forewordheader"
             placement="inline"
             alt="heading"
             href="heading.png"
             class="- topic/image "/>
      <p outputclass="subject" class="- topic/p "> Subject test heading </p>
      <image height="10"
             width="500"
             id="img010"
             alt="image010"
             href="image010.png"
             placement="inline"
             class="- topic/image "/>
      <p class="- topic/p ">Some content goes here. This is a test front matter content.
      </p>
      <p class="- topic/p ">  </p>
      <p class="- topic/p ">  </p>

      <p class="- topic/p ">
         <image href="image011.png"
            alt="image011"
            id="image011"
            placement="inline"
            class="- topic/image "/>
      </p>
   </body>
</topic>

I am using the front-matter_1.0.xsl file to generate my cover page with the following template.

<xsl:template name="createFrontMatter_1.0">
        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="front-matter" xsl:use-attribute-sets="__force__page__count">
            <xsl:call-template name="insertFrontMatterStaticContents"/>
            <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__frontmatter">
                    <!-- set the title -->
                    <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__frontmatter__title">
                        <xsl:choose>
                            <xsl:when test="$map/*[contains(@class,' topic/title ')][1]">
                                <xsl:apply-templates select="$map/*[contains(@class,' topic/title ')][1]"/>
                            </xsl:when>
                            <xsl:when test="$map//*[contains(@class,' bookmap/mainbooktitle ')][1]">
                                <xsl:apply-templates select="$map//*[contains(@class,' bookmap/mainbooktitle ')][1]"/>
                            </xsl:when>
                            <xsl:when test="//*[contains(@class, ' map/map ')]/@title">
                                <xsl:value-of select="//*[contains(@class, ' map/map ')]/@title"/>
                            </xsl:when>
                            <xsl:otherwise>
                                <xsl:value-of select="/descendant::*[contains(@class, ' topic/topic ')][1]/*[contains(@class, ' topic/title ')]"/>
                            </xsl:otherwise>
                        </xsl:choose>
                    </fo:block>

                    <!-- set the subtitle -->
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="$map//*[contains(@class,' bookmap/booktitlealt ')]"/>

                    <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__frontmatter__owner">
                        <xsl:apply-templates select="$map//*[contains(@class,' bookmap/bookmeta ')]"/>
                    </fo:block>
                    <xsl:text>Preface </xsl:text>
                </fo:block>

       <!--         <xsl:call-template name="createPreface"/>-->

       <!—Use topic content front matter topic   as cover page     -->


                <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__frontmatter__owner">
                <fo:block>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="//*[contains(@outputclass,'frontmatter')]"/>
                </fo:block>
                </fo:block>
            </fo:flow>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1252

Answers (1)

SanFanDocu
SanFanDocu

Reputation: 11

Placing a topic as cover page is not provided.

WIth recent DITA versions (DITA 1.2/DITA-OT1.8.5)++ There are a few strategies pointing in another direction:

  1. Use DITA 1.2 key definitions combined with DITAVAL filtering to place "publication specific" content dynamically to the cover page. e.g.

    • Place product-specific keys in your bookmap elements like <title><ph keyref="productName"/><title>

    • Place the cover art as a image keyref in the title tag like <title><image keyref="product/imageID"/><title>

  2. Make a specialization of the org.dita.pdf2 plugin (DITA-OT 1.8.5 or higher) for each publication type and place individual background images in front-matter.xsl.

    <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute"
          top="-2cm" left="-2cm" width="21cm" height="29.7cm" background-repeat="no-repeat"
          background-image="Customization/OpenTopic/common/artwork/ManualCoverPageA4_V2-01.png">
          <fo:block/>
        </fo:block-container>

Upvotes: 1

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