Add a copyright page to PDF output from Chemistry CSS-PDF transformation

[jbisso]

I need to add a copyright page between the front cover and the TOC in the PDF that Chemistry creates from DITA files. (The document being processed is using a ditamap, not bookmap.)

Is this possible? Any extant example of such?

[Dan]

Indeed, a bookmap would be more appropriate for your use case. However, you can add a synthetic page using the following technique. In your customization CSS add the following:

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@namespace oxy "http://www.oxygenxml.com/extensions/author";



/* Declare a new page. */

@page copyright-notice-page {



  @top-left {

    content:none; /* Clear the headers for the copyright page */

  }

  @top-right {

    content:none;

  }



}



/* The front page contains the title of the publication. We are creating a synthetic element and place it on a different page. */

oxy|front-page:after{

  display:block;

  

  page: copyright-notice-page; /* Moves the synthetic element on a new page. */  

  

  margin-top:90%; /* use margins to position the text in the page */

  margin-left: 5em;

  margin-right: 5em;

  

  content: "Copyright 2018-2019 MyCorp Inc. \A All rights reserved";

  

  text-align:center; /* More styling */

  color:blue;

}



/* If you need to add more content as blocks, use the :after(2), :after(3) pseudo elements. */

oxy|front-page:after(2){

  display:block;

  page: copyright-notice-page;  /* Continue on the same page as the first after. */

  content: "Some more styled text";

  color:red;

}



/* If you want to extract information from the document, use the oxy_xpath function. 

    For example if the copyright info is stored in the map, like:

 <map>

  <topicmeta>

    <copyright>

      <copyryear year="2018"/>

      <copyrholder>MyCorp Inc.</copyrholder>      

    </copyright>

  </topicmeta>

 ...

 It can be extracted like this from the intermediate merged DITA map document:

 */

oxy|front-page:after(3){

  display:block;

  page: copyright-notice-page;  

  content: "Year: " oxy_xpath('//*:front-page/topicmeta/copyright/copyryear/@year') 

           "\A Holder: " oxy_xpath('//*:front-page/topicmeta/copyright/copyrholder/text()') ;

  color:green;

}

Many regards,
Dan