Since version 0.3.10 dblatex provides a basic support for page-size covers, when covers are defined as images to insert at the beginning of the document (front cover), or at the very end of the document (back cover).
To specify a cover, set in the book information element,
info or bookinfo, the images to use in
some cover elements (DocBook 5) or in
mediaobject with role set to cover
(DocBook 4).
If two covers are specified, it is assumed that the first one is for the
front cover, and the second one for the back cover. You can play with standard
imagedata width or depth attributes to ensure that the image
is sized to fit the page covers.
Here are two examples:
Example 3.2. DocBook 5 Front and Back Covers
<book>
<info>
...
<cover>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="cover-front-72dpi.png"
format="PNG" depth="100%" width="100%" align="left"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</cover>
<cover>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="cover-back-72dpi.png"
format="PNG" depth="100%" width="100%" />
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</cover>
</info>
...
</book>
Example 3.3. DocBook 4 Front Cover
<book>
<bookinfo>
...
<mediaobject role="cover">
<imageobject role="front-large">
<imagedata fileref="cover-front-72dpi.png" format="PNG" width="100%" />
</imageobject>
<imageobject role="front">
<imagedata fileref="cover-front-10dpi.png" format="PNG" width="444" />
</imageobject>
<imageobject role="front-small">
<imagedata fileref="cover-front-10dpi.png" format="PNG" width="444" />
</imageobject>
<imageobject role="thumbnail">
<imagedata fileref="cover-front-10dpi.png" format="PNG" width="444" />
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
...
</bookinfo>
...
</book>
Note that in DocBook 4, dblatex filters on the same
roles for mediaobject (cover) or for
imageobject (front-large) than
the DocBook Project does when it implement covers in epub format.
dblatex defines default templates
front.cover and back.cover to implement
covers through images, but you can overwrite them to create your own
method to build covers.