COGNOS Business Intelligence Series 7
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Chapter 2: Configure Servers<br />
Enable Accessibility Support<br />
Cognos is committed to assisting people with disabilities, and promotes initiatives that make<br />
workplaces and technologies accessible. For example, Cognos <strong>Series</strong> 7 provides a report-reading<br />
solution for accessibility. This report-reading solution is currently available in English. In addition<br />
to the English report-reading solution, the Upfront Accessible theme can be read in English and<br />
French.<br />
By default, reports published to a PowerPlay Enterprise Server are not accessible to disabled users.<br />
To enable accessibility, you must specify the appropriate setting in Configuration Manager.<br />
Note: PDF documents that support software accessibility guidelines contain additional markup<br />
information that increases the size of the PDF file produced and, as a result, may impact<br />
performance.<br />
Steps<br />
1. Start Configuration Manager.<br />
2. From the File menu, click Open the current configuration.<br />
The current configuration of your computer appears in the Configuration Manager window.<br />
3. From the View menu, click Advanced.<br />
4. Under the Cognos PowerPlay Enterprise Server/Dispatcher component, click the Accessibility<br />
category.<br />
5. Click the Accessible PDF property, and change the Value property to True.<br />
6. From the Actions menu, click Validate Selection.<br />
7. Click the Accessibility category, then from the Actions menu, click Apply Selection.<br />
Note: If you change the setting for Accessible PDF, existing saved report output in PDF format is<br />
not affected. In order to create PDF files that include accessibility markup tags, you must re-run<br />
your reports and re-save the output.<br />
PDF Server Configuration<br />
The PDF server is the component used by PowerPlay Enterprise Server that renders reports in PDF<br />
format. It works in the background whenever a user runs a report, either from Upfront or the<br />
Table of Contents.<br />
The PDF server is automatically tuned for optimal performance. However, you can adjust the<br />
settings using Cognos Configuration Manager.<br />
You can determine what settings are required by monitoring the status of running reports using<br />
the Monitor tab in PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration.<br />
Font Support Within PDF Generation<br />
You can specify the default font used for PDF generation. This font is used when the font specified<br />
in the report definition cannot be found on the server. Swiss 721 is the default font for Latin-1<br />
based languages, such as the Western European languages English, German, French, Spanish,<br />
Dutch, and Swedish. For non Latin-1 languages, including multi-byte languages, the default font<br />
is one of the larger world fonts from the Andale font family. The Swiss 721 font and Andale font<br />
family are supplied with your Cognos product.<br />
Use the Default Font property in Configuration Manager to change the default font.<br />
It is also beneficial to be able to search specified directories for fonts. You can use the System Font<br />
Files Paths property to specify a search list of font directories. This property is specified as a list of<br />
directory names separated by semi-colons, such as C:/WINNT/FONTS;D:/Program<br />
Files/Cognos/cern/bin/fonts.<br />
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