Certificate maker
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Makes a printable certificate as a landscape PDF: a title, the recipient’s name, a line about what it is for, and optional signature and date lines. Long names shrink to fit rather than running off the page.
How to use the certificate maker
The name is the part that breaks templates, and this one measures it and reduces the font size until it fits. A word-processor template with a fixed size either overflows the border or wraps onto two lines, and a certificate with a wrapped name looks like a mistake. Shrinking is the standard typographic answer and it is invisible until the name is genuinely very long.
The signature and date lines only appear if you fill in those fields. An empty ruled line on a printed certificate is an invitation to write on it, which is right when someone will sign by hand and wrong when nobody will — so leaving the field blank removes the line entirely rather than leaving an orphan.
Landscape is the convention for certificates and the reason is proportion: a portrait A4 with a name across the middle leaves too much empty space above and below, while landscape puts the name at a comfortable measure. Print on the heaviest paper your printer takes — 160 gsm or above feels like a certificate and 80 gsm feels like a memo, and that difference matters more than anything in the layout.
Questions
The font size is reduced until it fits. A fixed-size template would overflow the border or wrap onto two lines.