An invoice laid on a letterhead
An invoice laid on a letterhead somebody else made.
A pack built on three supplied sheets
A supply agreement standing on three PDF files the customer sent: a headed sheet under the front page, a plain sheet under every page the schedule runs to, and a page of conditions that goes in whole.
A customer sends their own paper as PDF files: the sheet with their name and address at the top, a plain sheet for the pages that follow, and the page of conditions they always attach. This example writes a supply agreement on all three. The first page sits on the headed sheet, the pages the schedule runs to sit on the plain one, and the page of conditions goes in exactly as it arrived — numbered like every other page, because it is one.
None of the three files is redrawn. The team reads each one, takes its page in as a drawing, and puts the new text on top. So the customer's letterhead comes out of the printer looking as they made it, and the conditions they signed are the ones on file, word for word. How many pages the plain sheet is needed for is not decided in advance: the table of deliveries says how many pages it takes, and the pack is that long.
What this example shows
- Three separate PDF files read and used as they stand.
- One sheet repeated behind however many pages the table needs.
- A supplied page kept whole, and counted as a page of the document.
The code, in full
The same document is written twice, once in each language. Both files are shown in full, with the code coloured on the server, and can be copied in one click.
The document itself
The document this example writes, ready to open.
What this document weighs
This document weighs 171,243 bytes.
The team wrote this example after measuring the documents above, so there is no earlier figure to set beside it. See every document measured.
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