Hi Diane,
The problem is the body region height in your
current customization. Although you set the page margins, you didn't
change the body margins, which are by default 0.5in top and bottom. See
this diagram to see how both margins determine the area of the body
region:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintOutput.html#TopBotMargins
This leaves your body-region with height 11 - 0.75
- 0.5 - 0.5 - 0.5 = 8.75in which is the largest image you could fit.
You could set the stylesheet params
'body.margin.top' and 'body.margin.bottom' to 0pt, but that would apply to all
page masters, which would eliminate the space for page headers and footers in
your book.
So I think you need to create a custom titlepage
page-master, creating a new first titlepage simple-page-master that sets the
margin-bottom and margin-top to 0pt in the fo:region-body. See this doc
for more guidance:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageDesign.html
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From:
Diane Larin
To:
Cc: Diane Larin
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 3:19
PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Changing the
printed area of a book title page
Hi,
I would like the first page of my
book to display an image that would cover as much of the page as
possible.
I customized fo/titlepage.templates.xml as
follows:
<t:titlepage t:element="book"
t:wrapper="fo:block">
<t:titlepage-content
t:side="recto">
<mediaobject/>
</t:titlepage-content>
and I used the
following in the bookinfo section:
<mediaobject>
<imageobject
role="pdf">
<imagedata align="center"
format="SVG" fileref="cover-image.svg"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
The parameters to specify the
page layout are:
<xsl:param
name="page.height.portrait">11in</xsl:param>
<xsl:param
name="page.width.portrait">8.5in</xsl:param>
<xsl:param
name="page.margin.top">0.75in</xsl:param>
<xsl:param
name="page.margin.bottom">0.50in</xsl:param>
<xsl:param
name="page.margin.inner">1.00in</xsl:param>
<xsl:param
name="page.margin.outer">1.00in</xsl:param>
When I try to generate the pdf file (using xep) I have
the following error message:
[error] no space for an element,
trying to recover
[error] no space for an element, trying to
recover
The size of my image is 6.4x9.7 inches,
which should fit. I tried to reduce the image, and the maximum size I can fit
is 5.56x8.375 inches. What am I missing?
Diane
Larin
INRO
