Creating a Customization Directory for PDF Output

The following procedure explains how to do a basic customization of the PDF output by setting up a customization directory. An example of a common use case is embedding a company logo image in the front matter of the book.

1. Copy the entire directory: DITA_OT_DIR\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\Customization to another location (for instance, C:\Customization).
2. Copy your logo image to: C:\Customization\common\artwork\logo.png.
3. Rename C:\Customization\catalog.xml.orig to: C:\Customization\catalog.xml.
4. Open the catalog.xml in Oxygen XML Editor and uncomment this line:

     <!--uri name="cfg:fo/xsl/custom.xsl" uri="fo/xsl/custom.xsl"/-->   

   So now it looks like this:

   <uri name="cfg:fo/xsl/custom.xsl" uri="fo/xsl/custom.xsl"/>

5. Rename the file: C:\Customization\fo\xsl\custom.xsl.orig to: C:\Customization\fo\xsl\custom.xsl
6. Open the custom.xsl file in Oxygen XML Editor and create the template called createFrontMatter_1.0. This will override the same template from the DITA_OT_DIR\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\xsl\fo\front-matter.xsl. Now, custom.xsl has the following content:

   <?xml version='1.0'?>
   <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
       xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
       version="1.1">
   
   <xsl:template name="createFrontMatter_1.0">
           <fo:page-sequence master-reference="front-matter" xsl:use-attribute-sets="__force__page__count">
               <xsl:call-template name="insertFrontMatterStaticContents"/>
               <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                   <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__frontmatter">
                       <!-- set the title -->
                       <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__frontmatter__title">
                           <xsl:choose>
                               <xsl:when test="$map/*[contains(@class,' topic/title ')][1]">
                                   <xsl:apply-templates select="$map/*[contains(@class,' topic/title ')][1]"/>
                               </xsl:when>
                               <xsl:when test="$map//*[contains(@class,' bookmap/mainbooktitle ')][1]">
                                   <xsl:apply-templates select="$map//*[contains(@class,' bookmap/mainbooktitle ')][1]"/>
                               </xsl:when>
                               <xsl:when test="//*[contains(@class, ' map/map ')]/@title">
                                   <xsl:value-of select="//*[contains(@class, ' map/map ')]/@title"/>
                               </xsl:when>
                               <xsl:otherwise>
                                   <xsl:value-of select="/descendant::*[contains(@class, ' topic/topic ')][1]/*[contains(@class, ' topic/title ')]"/>
                               </xsl:otherwise>
                           </xsl:choose>
                       </fo:block>
   
                       <!-- set the subtitle -->
                       <xsl:apply-templates select="$map//*[contains(@class,' bookmap/booktitlealt ')]"/>
   
                       <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__frontmatter__owner">
                           <xsl:apply-templates select="$map//*[contains(@class,' bookmap/bookmeta ')]"/>
                       </fo:block>
                      
                       <fo:block text-align="center" width="100%">
                           <fo:external-graphic src="url({concat($artworkPrefix, '/Customization/OpenTopic/common/artwork/logo.png')})"/>
                        </fo:block>
   
                   </fo:block>
   
                   <!--<xsl:call-template name="createPreface"/>-->
   
               </fo:flow>
           </fo:page-sequence>
           <xsl:call-template name="createNotices"/>
       </xsl:template>
   </xsl:stylesheet>

7. Edit the DITA Map to PDF transformation scenario and in the Parameters tab, set the customization.dir parameter to C:\Customization.