A commercial invoice
A commercial invoice: letterhead, logo, a billed-lines table, totals, and a QR code that pays it by SEPA transfer.
A boarding pass
A boarding pass carrying the IATA BCBP string a gate scanner reads.
An airline boarding pass: the passenger and their flight, the route, the times, the seat, a detachable stub down the side, and the code the gate reads. The layout is the tight, boxed kind a counter printer turns out; here it is drawn at whatever size the page leaves it.
The code is not decoration. It carries an IATA Resolution 792 bar coded boarding pass: one fixed-width line beginning M1 for a single leg, every field at its appointed offset — the name, the booking reference, the two airports, the carrier, the flight, the Julian day, the compartment, the seat, the check-in sequence and the passenger status.
What this example shows
- A fixed-width IATA BCBP string built field by field at its offset.
- That string carried as a QR code, the way a boarding pass on a telephone carries it.
- A perforation rule and a stub that repeats the flight details.
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 same document is written in each of these languages. Open the one you want to look at.
What this document weighs
| Before | 114,813 bytes |
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| Now | 44,643 bytes |
| Saved | 61.1 % |
Not one mark on the page changed. See every document measured.
Examples near this one
A delivery note
The note that travels with the goods: a barcode against each article, a box the receiver ticks, and the consignment's own code.
A payslip
A payslip: eighteen contribution lines with employee and employer shares, the month against the year to date.
A two-page services contract
A services agreement over two pages, ending in signature, name and date fields a reader fills in.
A landscape certificate
A landscape certificate whose border and seal are drawn line by line rather than placed as pictures.
A sheet of shelf labels
A sheet of die-cut shelf labels, priced and barcoded, with cut marks in the margins.
Glossary
- QR Code
- The square of black and white dots you point a telephone at: on a poster, on a restaurant table, at the foot of a bill. It carries a web address, or the exact details of a payment, so nobody has to type anything in. On an invoice it turns paying into one tap.