A multi-page invoice table
Twelve invoice lines is one page and thirty is two, the second taking up the first's header and layout.
A page and a stamp inside table cells
A supplier sends a pack — a delivery note, a packing list, a certificate, a weighbridge ticket — and somebody has to say, page by page, what was found on each one. The summary they write is usually a screenshot of every page, or the page retyped. Both mean the summary and the paper can disagree, and the day they do it is the summary that is believed.
Here each page goes onto the checking page as it arrived: the whole page, reduced to the size of a cell, not redrawn and not retyped. Beside it stands the stamp it was given. The stamp is drawn once and put on every row that needs it, so the file carries it once however many rows show it.
What this example shows
- A page out of another PDF, shown whole inside a table cell.
- A stamp drawn once and put on as many rows as ask for it.
- Both brought down to the cell they are given, never stretched.
The source code, complete
Nothing is left out and nothing is simplified: this is the program exactly as it runs, for the developer who uses this library. The third is the description itself: a plain list of what the page has to say, which is what the service is sent.
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The document itself
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