Erik B. wrote:
I'm looking for a way to have an image on the front page of a Docbook5
converted to PDF and/or epub.
Is this possible, and if so, how can I do it?
I've tried adding a Mediaobject to the book > info element but that didn't work.
--> XMLmind has developed the XSL stylesheets which convert DocBook to
EPUB[*] and which are included in all our products, so I can easily
answer the question for EPUB.
You must pass our XSL stylesheets a parameter called
epub.cover.image
The value of this parameter must be the absolute *URL* (no filename
please) of a PNG image having a 1000x1000 max. size.
You are of course free to also test other image file formats (e.g. SVG,
JPEG). More information in
http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/20/best-practices-in-epub-cover-images/
See for example:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/configure.epub
--> I'm sorry but I don't know the answer for the PDF output. You should
refer to the documentation of the DocBook XSL stylesheets:
* DocBook XSL Stylesheet Reference Documentation by Norman Walsh.
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/
* DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide by Bob Stayton.
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/
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[*] These stylesheets are different from those found in the stock
DocBook XSL stylesheets (that is,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/ ).
We *unfortunately* had to develop our own stylesheets because the very
first version of the stock stylesheets which generated EPUB was unusable
with Saxon, the XSLT engine we use in all our products.
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