[daisy] Problem with Custom Publication Type

[Bruno Dumon]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 15:45 +0200, Gabriel Gruber wrote:
> 
> Hello Paul, 
> 
> thanx again for your quick reply. another small questtion: we have
> these 2 (common) requirements for customizing the pdf output 
> 
> a) logo at the frontpage 
> b) custom fontface 
> 
> I realised that there is a logo property in the publication process
> "logo=" which has to contain a daisy link to an image resource. Having
> figured this out and having checked the publication log it does not
> seem to to anything with this image ...  (the image is not used
> anywhere in the pdf output) 

The logo is displayed in the header, see for example the books at
http://cocoondev.org/books/

You can see the corresponding book definition at:
http://cocoondev.org/daisydocs-1_5/233.html

> 
> ad b) Looking at the XSLTs in the pdf publication type, I saw some
> variables specifying the font face. I tried to set the property via
> the publication process "fontSanSerif", however it did not work
> really. Is there a way to do that via a property, or do I have to use
> the custom publication type where I directly hack the XSLT? 

To what did you try to set the font? Only a few font faces are supported
by default, to use additional fonts you need to do some Ibex
configuration, see the docs at
http://www.xmlpdf.com/ibex-downloads-java.html

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