Hi David,

natk’s suggestion was the correct one for what you want. Study the section of 
Bob Stayton’s DocBook book linked from natk’s note. Here’s the link again, as 
well as the follow-on section of Bob’s book about “Print title pages,” by which 
he effectively means PDF title page:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HTMLTitlePage.html
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TitlePagePrint.html


> Sorry my terminology was probably confusing and wrong. 
> I am primarily creating an Eclipse Plugin Help file. The PDF is a spin-off 
> from that.
>  I am actually creating a Manual - rather than a book and I want my manual's 
> "front cover" to look something comparable to other product manuals - for 
> example an IBM Manual where a logo/image  is present and the title is a short 
> way down from the top.
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> 
> > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:21:47 -0400
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Simple title page - would like to add a logo
> > 
> > On 8/19/14 8:40 PM, David Jackson wrote:
> > > All has gone well and I would like to now add a logo to the left of the
> > > title but so far have been unsuccessful at accomplishing what initially
> > > seemed like a simple task. 
> > 
> > If you want to produce a book, the first page of the PDF that DocBook
> > produces is not really the book cover. It's the first page inside the
> > book cover, which is normally very bland. If you want to produce an
> > artistic book cover, I'd recommend doing that with some other tool and
> > then concatenating it to the PDF you get from DocBook.
> >

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