Often, especially on multi-page PDF documents a consistent look and feel is desired. Rather than re-drawing the same basic things on every page templates can be used to and then placed as needed. Creating a template is much like creating a PDF page: Begin a new Template (%pdf_begin_template()%) Render the content for the template Close the Template (%pdf_end_template()%) Place the template on a PDF page as necessary as an image (%pdf_place_image()%) )% Note: Templates must be created outside the context of a page (must be called before %pdf_begin_page()% and after %pdf_end_page()%