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Revision as of 08:33, 21 October 2025


To create a custom cover sheet with more than just the title and a background, you need to add some custom formatting to a PDF template.

Customizing the cover sheet

Cover page with logo, background image, title, subtitle and contact information
Custom cover page
Important!

When you customize the cover sheet as described, you need to maintain it exclusively via the page MediaWiki:PDFCreator.

Changing the cover page from the page Special:PDF templates will overwrite your changes.


To create a new PDF template:

  1. Go to the page Special:PDF_templates.
  2. Copy an existing template.
    special page "PDF templates" with selected standard book pdf to be copied
    Copy a template
  3. Enter a name for the new template.
  4. Click Copy.



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