In the .fo file I do indeed see "instart-body," and in the list of
attributes for the odd, even, and first I do indeed see the
background-color attribute that I specified, but the resultant PDF has no
color there.
Alan
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Bob Stayton <
bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> **
> Hi Alan,
> That template looks like it should work. Can you peak in your .fo file
> to see if the new page master is being referenced? For a
> body page-sequence, you should see:
>
> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="instart-body" ...>
>
> If you see "body", then the selection process is not working. If you see
> "instart-body", then the custom page-master is not working.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
>
bobs@sagehill.net>
> *From:* Alan Oehler <
aoehler@instartlogic.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:05 PM
> *To:* docbook-apps <
docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [docbook-apps] Footer background color for pront output
>
> Took me a while to get back to this.
>
> Bob, I followed the documentation that you referred to, and added a
> background-color attribute to the fo:region-after elements. It doesn't seem
> to do a thing.
>
> Here's the logic I put in to decide whether to use the default or the
> custom page-masters:
>
> <xsl:template name="select.user.pagemaster">
> <xsl:param name="element"/>
> <xsl:param name="pageclass"/>
> <xsl:param name="default-pagemaster"/>
>
>
>
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="$default-pagemaster = 'body'">
> <xsl:value-of select="'instart-body'" />
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <xsl:value-of select="$default-pagemaster"/>
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
> I suspect I am not selecting my custom one properly and it's using the
> default - but I can't see why. Any ideas?
>
> Alan
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Alan Oehler <
aoehler@instartlogic.com>wrote:
>
>> Bob,
>>
>> Thanks! I'll give it a look-over.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Bob Stayton <
bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>> Hi Alan,
>>> That area is defined by the fo:region-after in the
>>> fo:simple-page-masters in fo:pagesetup.xsl. There is no attribute-set for
>>> that region, but you can create your own custom page-masters, and add the
>>> background-color to that fo:region-after element. Customing
>>> page-masters is described here:
>>>
>>>
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageDesign.html#DeclarePageMasters>>>
>>> Bob Stayton
>>> Sagehill Enterprises
>>>
bobs@sagehill.net>>>
>>> *From:* Alan Oehler <
aoehler@instartlogic.com>
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:17 PM
>>> *To:*
docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>>> *Subject:* [docbook-apps] Footer background color for pront output
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm having some trouble trying to figure out how to set up my footer for
>>> print output to have its background color set. I can add it to the
>>> footer.content.properties attribute set, but that only sets the background
>>> color of the displayed text - kind of like in HTML setting the background
>>> color attribute for the text in a div rather than for the div itself. In
>>> other words, I want the entire lower 15% or so of the printed page to have
>>> a different background color than the rest of the page.
>>>
>>> Any hints?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alan C. Oehler
>>> Senior Technical Writer | Instart Logic
>>> M: 650.504.7003
>>>
www.instartlogic.com>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alan C. Oehler
>> Senior Technical Writer | Instart Logic
>> M: 650.504.7003
>>
www.instartlogic.com>>
>
>
>
> --
> Alan C. Oehler
> Senior Technical Writer | Instart Logic
> M: 650.504.7003
>
www.instartlogic.com>
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Alan C. Oehler
Senior Technical Writer | Instart Logic
M: 650.504.7003
www.instartlogic.com