Business letter

A letter to a customer about the items remaining on their account. The text is justified and set in the OpenType (CFF) build of Inter, which Tagua subsets like TrueType fonts, so the PDF carries only the letters it uses.

Standards: PDF/A-2b · PDF/UA-1, checked with veraPDF on every change. Download the PDF.

What it shows

• Justified paragraphs
• An OpenType (CFF) font, subset
• Accented names and addresses
• PDF/A-2b and PDF/UA-1

The template

letter.report.yaml

# yaml-language-server: $schema=../schema/template.schema.json
# A business letter set in Inter's OpenType (CFF) build, so CI covers CFF font subsetting.
# Also exercises justified text (word spacing with CID fonts), accented text and PDF/A-2b.
version: 1
title: "{Subject}"
culture: en-IE

document:
  author: Acme Ltd
  compliance: [pdf-a-2b, pdf-ua-1]

page:
  size: A4
  margins: 25mm

fonts:
  InterText: { regular: fonts/Inter-Regular.otf }

styles:
  default: { font: InterText, fontSize: 10.5pt, lineHeight: 1.45, color: "#222222" }
  muted:   { color: "#6B6B6B" }
  heading: { fontSize: 15pt, color: "#111111" }
  th:      { color: "#6B6B6B", borderBottom: "0.5pt solid #BBBBBB", padding: 0 0 2pt 0 }
  total:   { borderTop: "0.5pt solid #BBBBBB", padding: 2pt 0 0 0 }

data:
  letter:
    fields: { Recipient: string, Salutation: string, Address: string, Date: date, Subject: string }
  items:
    fields: { Item: string, Amount: decimal }

body:
  dataset: letter

  detail:
    - layout: row
      content:
        - { type: text, value: "Acme Ltd\n1 Example Street\nDublin D02 X285", style: muted, width: 1fr }
        - { type: text, value: "{Date:D}", align: right, width: 1fr }

    - padding: 28pt 0 0 0
      content:
        - { type: text, value: "{Recipient}\n{Address}" }

    - padding: 24pt 0 10pt 0
      content:
        - { type: text, value: "{Subject}", style: heading, tag: h1 }

    - gap: 9pt
      content:
        - { type: text, value: "Dear {Salutation}," }
        - type: text
          align: justify
          value: >-
            Thank you for your order from our São Paulo and Zürich offices. As agreed during our
            meeting at the Café Olé in Galway, we have reviewed the account and set out the
            remaining items below. The figures include the corrections Seán raised in March;
            please let us know if anything looks naïve or out of place.
        - type: table
          dataset: items
          headerStyle: th
          columns:
            - { header: Item, value: "{Item}", width: 1fr }
            - { header: Amount, value: "{Amount:C}", width: 90pt, align: right }
          footer:
            - style: total
              cells:
                - { value: Total, isHeader: true }
                - { value: "{Sum(Amount):C}", align: right }
        - type: text
          align: justify
          value: >-
            Payment is due within thirty days. If you would prefer to settle in instalments, reply
            to this letter or write to accounts@acme.example and we will arrange it. Œuvre, Æsop
            and Ångström are among the titles still on back order; we will ship them as soon as
            they arrive.
        - { type: text, value: "Kind regards,\n\nMáire Ní Bhriain\nAccounts, Acme Ltd" }

  pageFooter:
    - content:
        - { type: text, value: "Page {PageNumber} of {TotalPages}", align: right, style: muted, fontSize: 8pt }

Render it yourself

Save the template, put the fonts it names next to it (Inter and the Noto fonts are free, under the SIL Open Font License), and run:

tagua render letter.report.yaml --open

Without a data file, tagua render makes up sample rows from the field types; see Preview as you edit.