Custom cover sheets

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

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.

Copying an existing template

To create a PDF template with a custom cover sheet, we first copy an existing template. For the example we copy the StandardBookPDF template to a new template called StandardHandbookPDF.

To create a new PDF template from an existing one:

1. Go to the page Special:PDF_templates.
2. Copy the template StandardBookPDF.

   

   Copy a template

3. Enter a name for the new template.
4. Click Copy.

Customizing the template

From the page Special:PDF_templates click on the template name for your new template. StandardHandbookPDF. This brings up the page MediaWiki:PDFCreator.

To customize the cover sheet:

1. Select your PDF template. This brings up the PDFCreator page for your template.
2. Open the page in edit mode.
3. Switch to the tab Document preface.
4. Replace the default content with the following content:

   <div class="pdfcreator-bgplain"></div>
   <div class="pdfcreator-intro">
       <div class="pdfcreator-intro-logo">{{{logo}}}</div>
       <div class="pdfcreator-intro-title">{{{book-title}}}
           <div class="pdfcreator-intro-subtitle">{{{book-subtitle}}}</div>
   	</div>
   
       <div class="pdfcreator-intro-text">
           <div>Adress line 1</div>
           <div>Adress line 2</div>
           <div>City</div>
           <div>Other contact info</div>
       </div>
   </div>
   

5. Switch to the tab Styles.
6. Append the following CSS rules to the end of the existing CSS styles.

   /*Start custom cover page styles*/
   
   .pdfcreator-type-intro {
   	page: coverpage;
   	background-size: 21cm;
   	width: 21cm;
   	height: 29.7cm;
   	background-repeat: no-repeat;
   }
   
   .pdfcreator-intro-title {
   	top: 15.5cm;
   	font-size: 32px;
   	color: #3E5389;
   	font-weight: 800;
   	line-height: 1.5em;
   }
   
   .pdfcreator-intro-subtitle {
       display:block;
   	font-size: 18px;
   	color: #3E5389;
   	font-weight: 600;
   	line-height: 1.3em;
   	margin-top:0.5cm;
   }
   
   .pdfcreator-intro-text {
       position:absolute;
   	font-size: 14px;
   	font-weight: 600;
   	line-height: 1.3em;
       top:25.5cm;
       left:1.75cm;
   	width: 17.5cm;
   }
   
   .pdfcreator-intro-logo {
   	position: absolute;
   	padding: 0.3cm 1.75cm;
   	width: 21cm;
   	max-height: 2.6cm;
   	overflow: hidden;
   	background-color: #ffffff;
   }
   
   .pdfcreator-bgplain {
       position:absolute;
       z-index:-1;
       height:12cm;
       width:21cm;
       background: #3E5389;
   }
   
   .pdfcreator-type-intro {
   	background-position:center 1.5cm;
   	/* first value: width of the image, second value: height */
       max-height:14cm;
       overflow:hidden; 
   }
   

   

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