Editing Coversheets (section)

== Overview ==
The purpose of the Coversheets is to add a front and/or back covering page to a PDF document uploaded to an EPrints repository.

Coversheets work by using a user-defined [https://www.openoffice.org/ Apache OpenOffice] coversheet template uploaded to your EPrints repository.  This template is then populated with the predefined attributes for the particular EPrint, before being attached to the front (or if specified, back) of any PDF documents uploaded for that EPrint.  To do this a number of dependencies need to be installed:
* '''PDFBox''' or '''Ghostscript''':  Either of these can be used to attach the coversheet to the rest of the PDF document.
* '''Apache OpenOffice''' or '''LibreOffice''': This is used to open up the coversheet template, so that a coversheet for a particular EPrint can be created.
* '''Perl Modules''': Needed for EPrints to interact with OpenOffice.

The instructions below provide guidance on testing and using the Coversheets Bazaar package on an EPrints 3.3 repository running on either Debian or RedHat based Linux distributions.  These instructions are intended to be sufficiently generic to be interpreted for use when installing on other Linux distributions.