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Hoplop

Oct 23, 2019; 12:03pm

Set PDF document title property

Ok, so i have adoc with header like this:

:notitle:
:front-cover-image: image:title-page-image.png[]

== Section 1
=== Subsection 1.1
etc

I did this, because what i need is title page without any text, only big image, on whole page. It surely working, but the problem is that after creating PDF from it with asciidoctor-pdf document title in PDF metadata is set to "Section1". I suppose it is logical behavior, but how can i set title to another value?

habamax

Oct 24, 2019; 6:28am

Re: Set PDF document title property

Well, I have no problem with titles:

= Random notes: Here and there
:author: Maxim Kim
:experimental:
:icons: font
:autofit-option:
:source-highlighter: rouge
:rouge-style: github
:revdate: 2018-12-07
:imagesdir: images
:pdf-style: test
:toc:
:doctype: article
:front-cover-image: image:habamax-cover.jpg[]
:notitle:

== asciidoctor

don't insert image link url if file name wasn't created...


image::img_notes_1.png[]

== customer
...

mojavelinux

Oct 24, 2019; 7:08am

Re: Set PDF document title property

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In reply to this post by Hoplop

You need to set the document title to blank so that the default value isn't used (which is the first section):

= {blank}
:notitle:
:front-cover-image: image:spec/fixtures/cover.jpg[]

== Section 1
=== Subsection 1.1
etc

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 6:03 AM Hoplop [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Ok, so i have adoc with header like this:
:notitle:
:front-cover-image: image:title-page-image.png[]

== Section 1
=== Subsection 1.1
etc
I did this, because what i need is title page without any text, only big image, on whole page. It surely working, but the problem is that after creating PDF from it with asciidoctor-pdf document title in PDF metadata is set to "Section1". I suppose it is logical behavior, but how can i set title to another value?

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habamax

Oct 24, 2019; 7:19am

Re: Set PDF document title property

mojavelinux wrote

You need to set the document title to blank so that the default value isn't
used (which is the first section):

Haven't thought about {blank}.

OP wanted non-blank title to be in PDF metadata (bookmarks?) but not in the pdf pages itself, as far as I understood.

mojavelinux

Oct 24, 2019; 7:22am

Re: Set PDF document title property

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> OP wanted non-blank title to be in PDF metadata (bookmarks?) but not in the pdf pages itself, as far as I understood.

The presence of the notitle attribute makes it clear that @Hoplop didn't want it in either place, hence my suggestion.

-Dan

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habamax

Oct 24, 2019; 8:02am

Re: Set PDF document title property

mojavelinux wrote

> The presence of the notitle attribute makes it clear that @Hoplop didn't
want it in either place, hence my suggestion.

@Hoplop clearly doesn't want title page. And at the same time:

hoplop wrote

I suppose it is logical behavior, but how can i set title to another value?

He wanted to set title other than section 1 to a value that would be in PDF metadata.

But anyway, @hoplop can clarify what he meant.

mojavelinux

Oct 24, 2019; 8:07am

Re: Set PDF document title property

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> He wanted to set title other than section 1 to a value that would be in PDF metadata.

That can be accomplished by setting the document title to any other value. That's the normal behavior*. If the document title is not specified at all, in the outline, it will use the title of the first section. (If we to revise that behavior, then we need an issue for it).

Best,

-Dan

* See this test: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf/blob/d45f8ae99e068525138a8af8afcbeadb6d16c9d2/spec/outline_spec.rb#L236-L257

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mojavelinux wrote

> The presence of the notitle attribute makes it clear that @Hoplop didn't
want it in either place, hence my suggestion.

@Hoplop clearly doesn't want title page. And at the same time:

hoplop wrote

I suppose it is logical behavior, but how can i set title to another value?

He wanted to set title other than section 1 to a value that would be in PDF metadata.

But anyway, @hoplop can clarify what he meant.

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Hoplop

Oct 24, 2019; 9:42am

Re: Set PDF document title property

What i want is title page without title. Only with background image.
But title must be in document metadata. And its value must be configurable.
Is there a way to achieve that?

mojavelinux

Oct 24, 2019; 10:04am

Re: Set PDF document title property

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Haven't we already discussed this in this thread? https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Asciidoctor-PDF-Title-page-with-image-only-td7192.html

No, you cannot have a title page and not have the document title. But you can have a cover page, which seems to be what you really want. For example:

= Document Title

:notitle:

:front-cover-image: image:cover.png[]

content starts here

You'll see that "Document Title" only shows up in the outline.

If you want a front cover AND another page that comes after it before the first page of content, you could create a 1-page PDF that uses the background image, then import it at the start of the document. Something like:

= Document Title

:notitle:

:front-cover-image: image:cover.jpg[]

image::background.pdf[]

content starts here

(The only downside to that approach is that the page numbers of off by one).

-Dan

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What i want is title page without title. Only with background image.
But title must be in document metadata. And its value must be configurable.
Is there a way to achieve that?

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Hoplop

Oct 24, 2019; 10:52am

Re: Set PDF document title property

Back then i didn't realize that title tag of PDF is set to first section title . I was not using document title at all, i skipped the line

= Document title

The thing is that i create separate .adoc with all settings and include it in beginning of my main document. I set cover page and everything in settings.adoc. Purpose of that is to be able to set same settings in several files.
Then, when i set title in main document just before settings include:

= Document title
include::settings.adoc[]

== Section 1
...
=== Subsection 1.1
...

i get some errors and PDF was generated in strange way: Document title was insert several times in document, before each heading of level 1 (==). So i decided not using document title at all, and only yesterday i realized that metadata title is set to first section title.
Now i tried to set settings about cover page in main file, not in "settings.adoc", like this:

= Document title
:notitle:
:front-cover-image: image:resources/pdf/themes/main-theme/title-page.png[]
include::settings.adoc[]

== Section 1
...
=== Subsection 1.1
...

And it all worked! Yay!