Manual:Extension/PDFCreator/Custom cover sheets: Difference between revisions

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To create a custom cover sheet with more than just the title and a background, you need to add some custom formatting to a PDF template.

Custom cover page

Important!

When you customize the cover sheet as described, you need to maintain it exclusively via the page MediaWiki:PDFCreator.

Changing the cover page from the page Special:PDF templates will overwrite your changes.

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-== Cloning an existing PDF template ==
-By default, the wiki has two PDF templates available:
-* '''StandardPDF''' without a defined cover page. It works best with ''Page'' print mode.
-* '''StandardBookPDF'''  with a simple cover page. It works best with ''Book'' print mode.
-For the example layout on this page, we clone the StandardBookPDF:
-{{Manual:Extension/PDFCreator#Copy_an_existing_template}}