How Can Cover Sheet Show Cyrillic or Chinese CharactersHow Can Cover Sheet Show Cyrillic or Chinese Characters

What

A cover sheet can be configured and automatically added to all publicly available PDFs. The cover sheet is added when downloading a Research output or Student Theses from the Pure Portal; however, in some cases the cover sheet does not show title, when this is not in Latin characters e.g. Greek or Chinese characters. You'll see that everything else renders fine except title (or whatever field the text is placed in). If there is a title and subtitle, you would only see the : separating them.

How

The underlying reason is that the font selected in the cover sheet XML does not support these characters.

• Solution is to exchange the font to one that does.
• Arial (font) should work in most cases.
• Navigate to Administrator > Research output or Student Theses > Cover sheet configuration and fill in <font> tag with font name.

Sample XML with Arial font

<element>
<font>ARIAL</font>
<fontSize>12</fontSize>
<horisontal-alignment>LEFT</horisontal-alignment>
<vertical-alignment>TOP</vertical-alignment>
<height>20</height>
<textStyle>BOLD</textStyle>
<textColor>BLACK</textColor>
<leftMargin>57</leftMargin>
<rightMargin>40</rightMargin>
<type>Title</type>
</element>

Note: Cover sheets only support these fonts:

• ARIAL
• COURIER
• HELVETICA
• TIMES_ROMAN
• SYMBOL
• ZAPFDINGBATS

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