Complete business documents
The documents a business sends out every day, produced by the software that already holds the figures.
14 examples
What a PDF library is for
Eleven families of what hqf-pdf creates. Each card opens the family's page: what it is for, then its examples.
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Pages, text and fonts
The page itself, the words on it, and the font — carried inside the file so the page looks the same everywhere.
11 examples
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Paragraphs, columns and typography
You supply the text; the library works out where each line ends, where each column stops and where each page breaks.
20 examples
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Tables
Tables that fit their columns to the content, split across pages and repeat the heading row on each new page.
11 examples
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Colour, inks and printing
The colour you set is the colour that goes to the press, and the printing works takes the file as it stands.
12 examples
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Drawing, patterns and transparency
Lines, shapes, gradients and transparency drawn as instructions in the file, not as pixels — sharp at any size, and weighing almost nothing.
11 examples
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Images
Photographs placed at the size and the position you choose, from the image files a camera or a scanner already produces.
4 examples
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Barcodes and 2D codes
The codes a till, a warehouse scanner, a boarding gate or a phone reads, printed straight onto the document.
5 examples
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Links, navigation and how a file opens
A table of contents whose entries jump to the right page, words that open a web address, and page numbers in the reading software that match the ones printed on the page.
6 examples
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Forms, stamps and overlays
Boxes the person receiving the form fills in on screen, and your text laid over a template: a PDF file somebody else already made.
7 examples
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Archiving, accessibility and metadata
Documents that will still open decades from now, that a screen reader can read aloud, and that an accounting system can book without anyone retyping them.
8 examples