Mat Manual Tools · No. 08
Certificates your students will keep.
Pick your art, pick a border, and word the certificate the way your school words it. The native-script titles and side words come from a checked list, so nobody has to type a character set they can't read. Print one for a single student, or paste a class list and print one per name.
Step one
Your art, and the kind of certificate
The art sets the border, the script, and the words down the sides. The type sets the title and the sentence around the student's name. Every word stays editable after — these are starting points, not forms.
Step two
Border, script, and paper
The certificate prints on a white background whatever you choose, so the paper you load is the color you get — the same trick as a printed menjo. Side words and native titles come from the checked lists in the Words step. If you'd rather type your own script text, that's a Pro feature — and checking it is on you, the same as it would be with a calligrapher.
Step three
The wording — say it the way your school says it
Step four
Who signs it
One to three signature blocks, printed left to right in the order you fill them in. Names print on the line in type, or leave a name blank and sign over the line by hand.
Step five · Pro
Your logo, and a seal stamp
The logo sits at the top center of the certificate. It never leaves your design — it's stored with it, nowhere else.
Type the characters and the stamp builds itself — red ink, slightly turned, the way a real hanko lands.
Step six
Who it's for
On a class list, the number counts up from here, one per student.
Step seven
Print it
In the print dialog, set margins to None and turn on Background graphics — that's what keeps the border and the colors. Printing a single certificate to try the fit first is never a waste of a sheet.
Your library
Saved designs
Save the wording once, and next term's certificates are a name list away. The Free plan keeps one saved design; Pro keeps as many as you like.
Account
One sign-in for every Mat Manual tool
Sign in to keep your designs backed up to your account. The plan on your account — Free or Pro — is the plan every tool reads, this one included. No account? You can still design and print; your work stays on this device.
What's Pro here: every border and certificate type, class lists with registry numbers that count themselves, your school's logo, the seal stamp, custom script text, PNG export, and unlimited saved designs. See Mat Manual Pro.