{"id":40,"date":"2016-09-27T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/eduguide\/chapter\/automatic-custom-title-pages\/"},"modified":"2018-01-21T18:44:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:44:33","slug":"automatic-custom-title-pages","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/eduguide\/chapter\/automatic-custom-title-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic &amp; Custom Title Pages"},"content":{"raw":"\n<h2>Automatic Title Pages<\/h2>\n<p>In conventional (print) book layout, there are usually two title pages: the Half-Title, which contains<i>&nbsp;<\/i>the title of the book, and the Title Page, which usually contains the title, subtitle, author, publisher, publisher city.&nbsp;Pressbooks automatically generates a Title Page in PDF and EPUB\/MOBI exports, and (in most themes) a Half-Title Page in PDF (but not EPUB or MOBI).<\/p>\n<p>The automatically generated Title Page (and Half-Title) pulls information from the <a href=\"https:\/\/guide.pressbooks.com\/chapter\/automatic-pages\/chapter\/book-info\/\">Book Info<\/a> page, and styles it appropriately. The&nbsp;Title and Author will be filled in automatically whether or not you visit the Book Info page; for the other items, if you do not add the information, then it will not show up on the Title Page.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to remove your half-title page, you will need to apply the Custom CSS theme, Edit CSS for your PDF, and make sure the half-title variable reads as follows in&nbsp;the book\u2019s CSS.<\/p>\n<p>#half-title-page {display: none;}<\/p>\n<h2>Making a Custom Title Page<\/h2>\n<p>You may want to create your own Title Page in order to add a logo, or identify contributor roles differently&nbsp;than the automatic option allows (e.g. instructors for course materials). To do this, you can create a custom Title Page, which will override the automatically-generated version:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add a new front matter item.<\/li>\n<li>Select Title Page as the front matter type.<\/li>\n<li>Add your content (including images) and style it as you like.<\/li>\n<li>Save your title page and export.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n","rendered":"<h2>Automatic Title Pages<\/h2>\n<p>In conventional (print) book layout, there are usually two title pages: the Half-Title, which contains<i>&nbsp;<\/i>the title of the book, and the Title Page, which usually contains the title, subtitle, author, publisher, publisher city.&nbsp;Pressbooks automatically generates a Title Page in PDF and EPUB\/MOBI exports, and (in most themes) a Half-Title Page in PDF (but not EPUB or MOBI).<\/p>\n<p>The automatically generated Title Page (and Half-Title) pulls information from the <a href=\"https:\/\/guide.pressbooks.com\/chapter\/automatic-pages\/chapter\/book-info\/\">Book Info<\/a> page, and styles it appropriately. 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