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🖨 Decision Letter Printing

Generally speaking, there are three pipelines for printing decision letters in Slate.

1. PDF Export

This section is out of date. Slate now features two PDF rendering engines; the author has not evaluated the new one.

PDF Rendering Engine v1

Pros
Cons
  • Applicants can download letters 
  • Allows setting margins
  • Can print via a regular color printer on plain paper
  • Not compatible with true, professional letterhead, as you cannot remove the background (unless you give students a PDF without a background). Possible solution.

PDF Rendering Engine v2

Coming soon...

2. Decision Letter Export to Word

You can access this method in the query output options of a query on the Application base.

decision query output options.png

Pros
Cons
  • Outputs .docx files
  • Can insert page breaks*
*Note: 

Page Breaks

<p style="page-break-before: always">

MDN says that page-break-before has been superseded by break-before, but the latter does not work in Slate.

3. Mail Merge Word Document

Like Decision Letter Export to Word, this is accessed via query output options <in what base(s)?>.

With this method, the actual letter contents are in a Word template; you would upload the template to a Slate query containing exports for each merge field. This allows a lot of control but requires maintaining decision letter text in both the Word template and the Slate letter templates.

Documentation

Download and Print Decision Letters

Exporting Decision Letters

Community Posts

Creating 2 pages for decision letters

Decision Letter generation- image question

Letterhead (/apply/decision.pdf) missing on PDF download when v2 HTML/CSS option is used on a decision letter template

PDF dropdown on decision letter templates

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