Cover page for PDF Book

[jpmorr]

I'm wondering how you go about making a cover page that is more complete than the default 'bare-bones' version.

When I've written report/manuals/etc in LaTeX, it's very easy to have a title page that has title, author(s), affiliation(s), some sort of image and/or possibly a organisation logo on the cover page. If there's no verso page the cover may also include details such a copyright info, document version, doi or publishing date towards the bottom.

Is there anyway to create such feature filled cover pages and/or verso pages with quarto.

I'm really enjoying the transition to quarto, although I'm struggling to figure out how to do some things like editing formatting for sections headers or captions. Are there any examples that show some of the more advanced customisations that can be done for creating pdfs?

[jjallaire]

Yes, definitely! Check this out: https://nmfs-opensci.github.io/quarto_titlepages/

[jpmorr]

Wonderful!

[fuhrmanator]

The titlepages template/extension is very cool. However, if you want a simple way to include an image on the cover page of a scrbook class before the title, you can use the titlehead hook in the LaTeX headers:

format:
  pdf:
    header-includes: |
      \titlehead{\includegraphics[width=6in]{cover-image.png}}

I didn't try it, but I the Koma Script classes will also display a \publishers part after the date, before the \thanks in a footnote at the bottom.

[zawkzaw]

Hello!
Thank you for a simple solution for including an image on the cover page of quarto pdf book. I tried this and log was there but it is upper left corner. If I want it on other places, say upper center place or lower centre place.

Thanks in advance

[fuhrmanator]

Hello -- this answer should help you a lot. You can also ask ChatGPT (or Copilot) to help you customize the title page in LaTeX, but you need to work the LaTeX solution into Quarto with the header-includes as above.

[friendly]

Does the simple header-includes solution also work for other document classes? I'm using krantz.cls for my book

[Steinthal]

I guess you're still using include-in-header (according to #11087), so you could add the titlehead instruction in your latex/preamble.texfile.

[friendly]

\titlehead is defined somewhere in what you get from scrbook.cls (Koma script package), but I haven't been able to find where/how it is defined to be able to use that in my preamble.

In my case I have a complete .png image of my cover, with title, author, ... and a graphic image, so nothing else is needed.
I don't think I can use the quarto_titlepages extension for this, so I need to define something in LaTeX that will essentially use \includegraphics[width=6in]{cover-image.png} on a separate page.