Hi there!

I recently discovered that the current template we're using for this package is outdated, thanks to a tip from Sebastiano Spatola. You can find more details at this link: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/711582/currriculum-vitae-format-2024.

To keep EuropeCV relevant and useful for the entire community, it would be beneficial to develop a new style file (.sty) that can generate a PDF with the same characteristics as our current Word file https://www.modelli-di-curriculum.it/wp-content/download/X10-cv-europass-modello-it-word.docx.

This could potentially be a great project for an AI tool like ChatGBT, Gemini, or any other. While I'm currently short on time to delve into this myself, I'm definitely interested in exploring it further during the next Summer or Winter break.

I'm keeping this issue open in case any of you have some spare time to begin investigating the topic and would like to provide feedback.

Hi,
I would like to add multiple addresses and mobile numbers to my cv, having the graphical symbol for each, how can I do that?
Thanks

Here I reported the bug described by Antonis Tsolomitis.

I just tried the europecv class. Very nice. pdflatex works fine. However, there is a bug
in the logos when one uses xelatex or lualatex.
When one loads fontspec, for example with

\usepackage[gfsneohellenic]{fontsetup}

, this is a new package of mine that allows easy and quick font selection with unicode engines, and runs either xelatex or lualatex, the first ignores the logo and the second stops compilation with error and produces no pdf.

The problem is that the pdf is created by PSNormalizer.framework and xelatex and lualatex for some reason do not like this. However, if you pass the eps files through epstopdf the pdf output works in all cases.

I have noticed this problem with all files coming from Adobe tools. So I write to you in case you want to address this issue and re upload to ctan working pdfs for all logos.

It would be interesting using your template while getting data from a DB. We have all our data in PostgreSQL, in principle it should be feasible.

Adding this macros:

\makeatletter
  % Add a row of two cols to a global list
  % #1: list; #2#3: two cols
  \def\ecv@blx@additemto#1#2#3{\expandafter\gdef\expandafter#1\expandafter{#1\\#2&#3}}

  % Called for each item
  \def\blx@bibitem#1{%
    % Counter for defernumbers
    \blx@getdata{#1}%
    \blx@thelabelnumber%
    %
    % Add current item to the list
    \ecv@blx@additemto\ecv@blx@table{%
      % Hypertarget
      \raisebox{10pt}[0pt][0pt]{\hypertarget{cite.\the\c@refsection @#1}{}}%
      % Label
      \protect\NoHyper\cite{#1}%
    }{%
      % Citation
      \fullcite{#1}\vspace{5pt}%
    }%
  }

  \let\std@blx@printbibliography\printbibliography
  \renewcommand\printbibliography[1][]{%
    \gdef\ecv@blx@table{}% Init the list of items
    \std@blx@printbibliography[#1]% Add items to list
    \ecv@blx@table\\% Print the list of items
  }
\makeatother

% Heading
\defbibheading{bibliography}[\bibname]{\textbf{#1}\vspace{-10pt}}

you can use biblatex bibliogaphy with biber support.

I know that not all the options of biblatex will work, but the most important one work and it's a first step towards biblatex support.

Here there is an example: https://www.overleaf.com/read/tsbkgvvfyydp

Here I reported another suggestion received via mail by Antonios Tsolomitis.

I think you must provide a command for Matrix (matrix.org) and its client Riot and not only Skype. Technology such as Matrix is the future I think. Because people must be free to have their own video-conference servers as the have their own email servers.

In linux file think that this is a postscript file, which creates a few issues with other utilities (e.g., less).

Here I reported another suggestion received via mail by Antonios Tsolomitis.

In English, I think that the correct order is First name/Surname. The reverse is correct in Hungary.

As described in the text of the issue, Nicola's e-mail has to be updated with the one reported on his web site: https://www.dmif.uniud.it/persone/nicola.vitacolonna/

I used your template "cv_template_en.tex".
I don't need the "Updated " line at the beginning of the pdf (see picture). How can I delete this?

I tried to change the "ecvde.def"-file (in my CV german version).
Original:
\def\ecv@date{\ecv@utf{Aktualisiert auf \today}}
My changes:
\def\ecv@date{}

After that, sure "Updated " is not shown. But there is a big gap.

I then changed the .tex-file:
\begin{europecv}
\vspace{-4cm}
\ecvpersonalinfo[20pt]
\ecvitem{\large\textbf{Desired employment/ Occupational~field}}{\large\textbf{(Remove if not relevant)}}

But the gap is still to big...

If I insert a tilde (~) in the homepage url:
\ecvhomepage{https://www.dei.unipd.it/~peressonid}
it is treated like a nbsp and so not showed: https://www.dei.unipd.it/ peressonid which address to: https://www.dei.unipd.it/%5Cprotect %5Cunhbox %5Cvoidb@x %5Cprotect %5Cpenalty %5C@M %5C %7B%7Dperessonid.

If I escape it with \~{} (\ecvhomepage{https://www.dei.unipd.it/\~{}peressonid}) the following error is raised:

! Incompatible list can't be unboxed.
\SOUL@analyze ->{\setbox \z@ \vbox {\unvcopy \z@ 
                                                 \unskip \unpenalty \global ...
l.24   \end
           {europasscv}
? 

I managed to get the right address using url escape: \ecvhomepage{https://www.dei.unipd.it/\%7Eperessonid}, but the output is ugly.

Here I reported another suggestion received via mail by Antonios Tsolomitis.

At least the parenthesis around CEF must by \upshape. Italic parenthesis look bad.

Hello! I found out about this package today and I like it so far, it has Romanian i18n which I love...
...except it fails for even a basic project.

To be exact, when I compile this MWE using XeLaTeX:

\documentclass[english, arial]{europecv}
\usepackage{graphicx} % Required to draw the logo

% Because the Arial option somehow doesn't work, but that's besides this issue.
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Arial} 

\ecvdate{ \today}
\begin{document}
\begin{europecv}
  \ecvpersonalinfo
\end{europecv}
\end{document}

LaTeX tells me:

ERROR: Unable to load picture or PDF file 'europasslogo.pdf'.

--- TeX said ---
<to be read again> 
                   }
l.12 \begin{europecv}
                     
--- HELP ---
No help available

Of course, using nologo works just fine. I took a look in europecv.cls in my version, here's the relevant bit I want to focus on:

% Europass logo
\DeclareOption{logo}{%
\providecommand*\draweuropasslogo{%
   \includegraphics[width=\ecv@logowidth]{europasslogo}}
}
\DeclareOption{nologo}{\renewcommand*\draweuropasslogo{}}

% Flag pictures of the EC can be found at
%   http://europa.eu.int/abc/symbols/emblem/index_en.htm
\DeclareOption{noflag}{\providecommand*\draweuropeflag{}}
\DeclareOption{flagWB}{%
  \renewcommand*\draweuropeflag{%
    \includegraphics[width=\ecv@flagwidth]{EuropeFlagWB}}
}
\DeclareOption{flagBW}{%
  \renewcommand*\draweuropeflag{%
    \includegraphics[width=\ecv@flagwidth]{EuropeFlagBW}}
}
\DeclareOption{flagCMYK}{%
  \renewcommand*\draweuropeflag{%
    \includegraphics[width=\ecv@flagwidth]{EuropeFlagCMYK}}
}
\DeclareOption{flagBlueCMYK}{%
 \renewcommand*\draweuropeflag{%
   \includegraphics[width=\ecv@flagwidth]{EuropeFlagBlueCMYK}}
}

The strange part is that all of the flag options work (flagBlueCMYK, flagCMYK, flagBW and flagWB and, ofc, noflag). If I do a rpm -ql texlive-europecv | grep pdf (so I get the PDFs available in my distro's package), I get this:

$ rpm -ql texlive-europecv | grep pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/europecv/EuropeFlagBW.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/europecv/EuropeFlagBlueCMYK.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/europecv/EuropeFlagCMYK.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/europecv/EuropeFlagWB.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/europecv/europasslogo.pdf

So the file is DEFINITELY present, all EuropeFlag*.pdf work and yet it simply refuses to load the logo.

Details:

• Fedora 35
• sudo dnf list | grep texlive-europecv:

texlive-europecv.noarch                                                                  9:svn59162-48.fc35                                               @updates
texlive-europecv-doc.noarch                                                              9:svn59162-48.fc35                                               updates

• tex --version:

TeX 3.141592653 (TeX Live 2021)
kpathsea version 6.3.3
Copyright 2021 D.E. Knuth.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the TeX source.
Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.

• xelatex --version:

XeTeX 3.141592653-2.6-0.999993 (TeX Live 2021)
kpathsea version 6.3.3
Copyright 2021 SIL International, Jonathan Kew and Khaled Hosny.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the XeTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the XeTeX source.
Primary author of XeTeX: Jonathan Kew.
Compiled with ICU version 69.1; using 69.1
Compiled with zlib version 1.2.11; using 1.2.11
Compiled with FreeType2 version 2.11.0; using 2.11.0
Compiled with Graphite2 version 1.3.14; using 1.3.14
Compiled with HarfBuzz version 2.8.2; using 2.9.1
Compiled with libpng version 1.6.37; using 1.6.37
Compiled with pplib version v2.05 less toxic i hope
Compiled with fontconfig version 2.13.94; using 2.13.94

Thank you for your time and if you need more relevant info, tell me!

The data I entered and I currently see in the profile page are updated, while if I load the CV that is currently in my library, the version is different. How can I make them consistent? Is there a way to make them automatically sync, so that when I update the former the latter is updated, too, and vice-versa?

Here I reported another suggestion received via mail by Antonios Tsolomitis.

An example must be provided in the documentation for the geometry package. You do not give an example. In the attached I have \usepackage[a4paper,height=24.2truecm,width=17.5truecm]{geometry}

Attach.zip

The recent release of europecv.cls introduced unnecessary forward compatibility problems

1. by adding a second mandatory argument to \ecvtelephone. Old documents now fail to compile with

Runaway argument?
! Paragraph ended before \ecvtelephone was complete

It's probably too late now, but this problem could have been circumvented by making the new phone number a second optional argument (or using keyval). But note that the documentation needs updating.

2. by silently dropping \ecvfax which results in LaTeX errors of old documents as well

3. by renaming \ecvsection without introducing a backwards compatibility alias (\let\ecvsection\section)

All these changes make it hard to maintain documents. Particularly, as a LyX developer, I am quite at a loss regarding the question how we can keep up maintenance of this class for LyX, since our layout files should work for users who still use TeXLive 2017 and older distributions as well.

I used your template "cv_template_en.tex".
I only have a mobile number, no normal telefone-number. Up to now I used the "telephone"-definition for my mobile phone number.
I like your changes. It would be nice to only define a mobile number:

Is this possible?

This issue is similar to:
#4

The feature that writes the update date at the top of the CV is not optional. It should be optional since sometimes one doesn't want future employers to know the last time the CV was updated.
My manual workaround was to edit the europecv.cls file, commenting line 420, the one that calls for the date to be written.

To make the feature optional, line 420 can simply be wrapped in a IF controlled by a global option but, unfortunately, I lack the skills to do it.

Thank you very much for your work on this package, Giuseppe, and for taking over after Nicola's work!

First, I should say I don't know much about LaTeX, so my notes below could be incorrect.

LaTeX2e is going to release a new version in a few days. TeX Live kindly provides a way to easily test the upcoming release: instead of using pdflatex (or friends), we can use pdflatex-dev. The following simple example succeeds when using pdflatex but fails with pdflatex-dev on an updated TeX Live 2022 system:

\documentclass[nologo]{europecv}

\begin{document}

\begin{europecv}{}

\ecvpersonalinfo{}{}

\end{europecv}{}

\end{document}

Here is the log file: mwe.log

From what I understand, this might be happening because europecv.cls uses \RequirePackage{hyperref} inside \AtBeginDocument. It is suggested here that:

In general it's a bad idea, hence dangerous, to load any package with \AtBeginDocument. Whether such use case works or not totally depends on the implementation of package and I doubt if it's ever officially supported.

As for why this is an issue only with the upcoming release and not the current release, I'm not sure but it might be described by the most recent LaTeX News issue (see the part about "Fixed bug when setting hook rules for one-time hooks").

The file europasslogo.pdf has incorrect offsets, which prevents it from being read by more strict programs, like dvipdfmx (used internally by XeTeX). Hence the following fails:

% test.tex
\XeTeXpdffile {europasslogo.pdf} width \hsize \relax

\bye

$ xetex test.tex
This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999994 (TeX Live 2022) (preloaded format=xetex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
! Unable to load picture or PDF file 'europasslogo.pdf'.
<to be read again>
                   \relax
l.2 ...file {europasslogo.pdf} width \hsize \relax

? h
The requested image couldn't be read because
it was not a recognized image format.

?

Note that after I ask for help with h the error is more specific, but not completely correct.

The issue is that in the PDF file the offsets to PDF objects are all wrong by a couple of bytes. I didn't investigate whether this is because of incorrect handling of binary data or end of lines or something else.

mutool or qpdf can be used to fix the issue. E.g. this invocation of mutool keeps most of the human readability of the PDF file. My output attached for reference.

mutool clean -d europasslogo.pdf europasslogo.pdf

The issue may be present in more files, but I found this thanks to @llde's original report here: tectonic-typesetting/tectonic#921.

I am fairly sure that 3fe8f19 from #27 is essentially the same issue - the PDF file could be found, but not processed. Hence I think that unspecifying the extension would allow PS centric workflows to use .eps file and PDF centric workflows use .pdf file directly. (Currently e.g. when running XeTeX each run the .eps file is converted using ghostscript to PDF, because XeTeX can't process .eps files directly.)

Below is my suggestion for the fix, but its largely untested (because of the begindocument sorting rule error) and not thorough (maybe the same issue is in other files, I didn't check).

diff --git a/europasslogo.pdf b/europasslogo.pdf
index 53f1721..61b6cd8 100644
--- a/europasslogo.pdf
+++ b/europasslogo.pdf
@@ -1314,15 +1314,15 @@ endobj
 xref
 0 10
 0000000000 65535 f
-0000033487 00000 n
-0000000016 00000 n
-0000033281 00000 n
-0000033347 00000 n
-0000033632 00000 n
-0000033567 00000 n
-0000033594 00000 n
-0000033715 00000 n
-0000033846 00000 n
+0000033485 00000 n
+0000000015 00000 n
+0000033279 00000 n
+0000033345 00000 n
+0000033630 00000 n
+0000033565 00000 n
+0000033592 00000 n
+0000033713 00000 n
+0000033844 00000 n
 trailer
 <<
 /Size 10
@@ -1331,5 +1331,5 @@ trailer
 /ID [<5bb2a8ac5de76fd7a41a0d69aa22822b><5bb2a8ac5de76fd7a41a0d69aa22822b>]
 >>
 startxref
-33913
+33911
 %%EOF
diff --git a/europecv.cls b/europecv.cls
index 0b84e54..d8b52c7 100644
--- a/europecv.cls
+++ b/europecv.cls
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@
 % Europass logo
 \DeclareOption{logo}{%
 \providecommand*\draweuropasslogo{%
-   \includegraphics[width=\ecv@logowidth]{europasslogo.eps}}
+   \includegraphics[width=\ecv@logowidth]{europasslogo}}
 }
 \DeclareOption{nologo}{\renewcommand*\draweuropasslogo{}}

It is now common to use Lualatex or xelatex. While both can fall back to operate as the traditional latex engine, there is advantage in using their ability to fully support unicode and to use system (otf, ttf) fonts.

Would be good to have some notes in the documentation on how to best use these engines and fonspec.

Here I reported another suggestion received via mail by Antonios Tsolomitis.

The photo is very low on the page. I think it should be higher on the page. Could the interface provide a way to raise the photo to a higher point?

Hi,
on GuIT (italian TUG's forum) there is a report of an error message.

Below a mwe:

\documentclass{europecv}
\begin{document}
\begin{europecv}
\end{europecv}
\end{document}

Below the error message on console:

! LaTeX hooks Error: Sorting rule for 'begindocument' hook applied too late.
(hooks)              Try setting this rule earlier.

For immediate help type H <return>.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.360 ...begindocument}{showkeys}{before}{nameref}

l.360 refers to nameref.sty file.