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Hello, I need some help again.

I use the XSLT and CSS to PDF Transformation Scenario and have specified a background image for the title page
It works fine as long as we need the same title page all the time. But to produce different documents with different titlepages I would like to pass the url to an image as parameter to the transformation.

I tried to make a new parameter "titlepage" in the transformation settings and refer to it with
But this does not work.
How can we pass the filename to transformation?
tia
Jörn

Hello,

The best thing to do is to use a custom parameter:

1. In the transformation scenario dialog, create a new parameter called for example "args.css.param.cover-page" and set its value to the image path (for example: "../img/title.png")
2. In your CSS file use the following selector

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   @page front-page {
       background-image: url(oxy_xpath('/*/@*[local-name()="cover-page"][1]'));
   }

You image should appear in the PDF.

Regards,
Julien

Please note that the image path should be given as an absolute URI, like: file:/C:/temp/example.svg. It works also with relative paths, but it will solve them relative to the XML location.

Useful technique, thank you!

Is there a way to write a CSS selector so that it is only applied when the parameter is set to a particular value?

Hello,

It is possible to control the first parameter by using a second custom parameter, for example "args.css.param.use-cover" with value "yes".

Then in the CSS, using the following selectors: Regards,
Julien

This works well, thank you!
Sometimes it is hard to figure out these cryptic notations

We have to use the relative paths because the XML data is in a repository and will be downloaded to different locations.

Regards
Joern