[Tex/LaTex] Package for certificates

Question

Since LaTeX can produce outstanding typesetting results and excellent graphics design, I began to wonder if it can recreate certificates. With so many packages and styles out there does anyone know if there is one to create certificate templates like the following example.

I suppose that the borders would be the limiting factor like those shown here.

Answer 1

I had to prepare certificates for a workshop recently and this is how I did it.

First, I prepared a border using smartdraw and called it border-2.jpg.

Since certificates are given to many, I used datatool package. I used the particulars of participants in a .csv file namelist-1.csv like this:

degree,Name,Dgn,subject,inst,place
Dr,Abdul Ali,Assistant Professor, E \& I,Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry - 605 014 
Mrs,Francesca Joestar,Assistant Professor, ECE,Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry - 605 014 
Mr,Chan Ker Mei,Assistant Professor, CSE,Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry - 605 014 
Dr,Hikaru Yagami,Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engg.,Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry - 605 014 
Dr,Harish Kumar,Professor,Physics,Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry - 605 014
Dr,R. Rajathy,Assistant Professor, EEE,Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry - 605 014 

and finally the latex code to generate the certificates is:

\documentclass[16pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[a4paper,left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{pdflscape,setspace,amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{calligra}
\usepackage{tgschola}
\usepackage{fourier-orns}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wallpaper}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{charter}
\usepackage{microtype}
\hyphenpenalty 100000
%=============================
\input Zallman.fd
\newcommand*\initfamily{\usefont{U}{Zallman}{xl}{n}}
%=============================
\usepackage{datatool}
\DTLloaddb{names}{namelist-1.csv}
%=============================
\def\signature#1#2{\parbox[b]{1in}{\smash{#1}\vskip12pt}
\hfill \parbox[t]{2.8in}{\shortstack{\vrule width 2.8in height 0.4pt\\\small#2}}}
\def\sigskip{\vskip0.4in plus 0.1in}
        \def\beginskip{\vskip0.5875in plus 0.1in}
%=============================
\definecolor{title}{RGB}{180,0,0}
\definecolor{other}{RGB}{171,0,255}
\definecolor{name}{RGB}{255,0,0}
\definecolor{phd}{RGB}{0,0,240}
%=============================
\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
\linespread{2}\selectfont
\pagestyle{empty}
\TileWallPaper{1\paperwidth}{1\paperheight}{border-2.jpg}
%=============================
\DTLforeach{names}{
\dg=degree, \name=Name, \dgn=Dgn, \sub=subject, \inst=inst, \place=place}{
%=============================
\noindent
\begin{minipage}[l]{1.5in}
 \includegraphics[width=.72\linewidth]{pec_emblem}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
%=============================
\begin{minipage}[c]{6.5in}
{\centering
{\onehalfspacing
    {\LARGE\bfseries {\color{other}{{ Pondicherry  Engineering College}}}}\\%\initfamily
    {\calligra Puducherry} -- {\calligra 605 014\\}
    \vskip0.4em
    {\large ISTE Short Term Training Program on\\}
    {\Large\bfseries\color{phd}{NANO ENGINEERING MATERIALS}}}\\
    \par}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
%=============================
\begin{minipage}[r]{1.5in}
\includegraphics[width=.92\linewidth]{istelogo/istelogo-1}
\end{minipage}
\vskip1em
%=============================
\begin{minipage}[l]{1.5in}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[c]{6.5in}
{\centering
{\onehalfspacing
    {\Large\bfseries \color{title}{Certificate of Participation}}\par
    \vskip0.5em
    {\color{pink}\Large\decofourleft\quad{\color{blue}\decoone}\quad\decofourright}
    \par}}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[r]{1.5in}
\end{minipage}
\vskip1.8em

{\doublespacing 
This is to certify that \uuline{{\large\sffamily\bfseries\color{name}{\dg. \MakeUppercase{\name}}}}, { \dgn}
of {\sub}, {\inst}, {\place},
has successfully participated in the two week  Short  Term   Training  Program
on  ``\emph{\color{phd}{Nano   Engineering   Materials}}''   sponsored   by  ISTE  and  organized  by  Department of  Physics, Pondicherry  Engineering   College,  Puducherry,  from
13$^{\text{th}}$ December to 23$^{\text{rd}}$ December 2010.}

\noindent
%\beginskip
{\singlespacing
\vfil
\begin{minipage}[l]{2.8in}
 \sigskip \signature{}{Dr. Harish Kumar \\ Co-ordinator }
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[c]{2.8in}
\sigskip \signature{}{Dr. Harish Kumar \\ Co-ordinator }
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[r]{2.8in}
\sigskip \signature{}{Dr. Harish Kumar \\ Principal }
\end{minipage}}
%=============================
\pagebreak
}
\end{landscape}
\end{document} 

pec_emblem and istelogo-1 are the logos:

And finally the certificate is here:

This is just for fun and dedicated to Paulo :)