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.

A form is a document with boxes in it: a name, a date, a box to tick, a choice from a list, a place to sign. The person receiving the form fills them in on screen and sends the file back, and what they entered comes back as data rather than as handwriting somebody has to decipher.

An overlay is the same idea the other way round: your text laid onto a template — a letterhead a printing works produced, a contract a customer supplied, a form from an administration, each kept as a PDF file of its own. The template is not redrawn and not altered. It is placed underneath, exactly as it was.

What it saves you

What the reader types comes back as data
Nothing is transcribed, nothing is illegible, and nobody has to retype a returned form into the system that was going to hold it anyway.
Your letterhead is used exactly as it is
There is no need to rebuild a design somebody else made and no risk of rebuilding it slightly wrong: the invoice is laid on the letterhead template that already exists.
A stamp that says what state the document is in
Draft, cancelled, paid — set across the page at a size nobody can overlook, so an old copy is not mistaken for a live one.

See it done

An agreement built on three supplied templates

A supply agreement standing on three templates the customer sent: a headed page under the front page, a plain page under every page the schedule runs to, and a page of conditions that goes in whole.

The watermark a trial copy carries

What you get before you pay anything: a watermark across every page, and the same pages under it, laid out exactly as a paid copy lays them out. This is also the document that says what a licence key changes, and why every figure on this site is measured with one.

An interactive form

A form a reader fills in: text boxes, a check box, a drop-down, radio buttons.

A document signed with a demonstration certificate

A page carrying a digital signature that any change to the file breaks, made with a certificate that exists only for the demonstration. Every command that made the key and the signature is printed on the page, with the one that checks it without this library.