Prices crossed out, a shadow behind the title

A half-price shelf card: every line shows the old price with a line through it beside the new one, the sum of the three carries a rule over the top, and the title is set a second time behind itself, shifted and paler, so it reads over anything.

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This one is not a program. It is the request the document server is sent: the same page, asked for over the network by an application that writes no PDF code at all.

The rule under the line of wording below the title is where the two part company. The library draws it in three instructions with nothing round them; on the wire a rule is a thing of its own, which sets the drawing settings aside and puts them back afterwards, and which says what colour it is and how thickly it is drawn before walking from one end to the other. The same rule lands on the same dots either way.

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