Hi all,
I'm replying to a year old reply because I think I finally found a better way
than the (excellent) way given me by the list.
Now that I no longer use \titlepage and \title and \maketitle and all that
stuff for the title, but instead use a combination of ERT and custom
environments, I'm free to put the cover before the title page. In such a
case, I'd make the cover page, the back of the cover, and the title page all
\thispagestyle{empty}, and I'd start numbering on the copyright page as ii,
and from page iii on I'd use \thispagestyle{fancy}. I'm pretty sure that will
put the cover on the front, but will NOT remove correct page numbering and
correct pdf contents jumping from the finished PDF.
I'll let you all know more in a few days.
Thanks
SteveT
On Friday 24 March 2006 15:07, Steve Litt wrote:
> Thanks Bruce,
>
> pdftk enabled me to easily do exactly what I want.
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
> On Thursday 23 March 2006 09:20 pm, Bruce Muirhead wrote:
> > You also can use pdftk. It is a command line utility, but very powerfula
> > and easy to use. What is needed is to create the cover and extra pages in
> > a separate programme as a pdf, and then joing th e two pdf files using
> > pdftk.
> >
> > see http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?topic=pdftk
> >
> > It is my preferred tool for that type of thing because it is easy and
> > lets me design the cover and frontispiece however I want.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > From: "Jose' Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
> > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:39 AM
> > Subject: Re: Book cover in LyX file
> >
> > On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of
> > > the final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to
> > > come before the title page.
> > >
> > > I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?
> >
> > pdfpages?
> > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfpages.html
> >
> > I remember this advice from Herbert's previous answers to similar
> > questions.
> > Notice that I could remember wrong. :-)
> > http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdf#a5
> >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > SteveT
> > >
> > > Steve Litt
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