24 — PRINT / PDF

Render the complete searchable reconstructed issue in correct page order.

PARTIAL Partly built

Only the original-then-rebuilt QA PDF is produced. The production PDF of rebuilt pages alone is not implemented.

Deterministic Products 0 archived step 24 of 26

Where this output sits

Source evidence›Candidate evidence›Human decision›Audit acceptance›Release›Production

Source evidence, candidate evidence, human decision, audit acceptance, release and production are six separate things. This step produces the highlighted one and nothing further.

Scope

Renders QA-passed page packages in issue order with pinned font, shaping engine, browser engine, locale and colour profile. Two separate outputs are required: a production PDF of rebuilt pages only, and a QA PDF pairing each original page with its rebuild.

This role is allowed to

Approximate typography honestly
Embed supported fonts and accessible text

How it works

fed by 23 QA

Inputs

Swept substrateExact CAP DOM textTYPE planSupported PIC/TABLE assetsIssue page order

Deterministic Deterministic pinned HTML/browser/PDF renderer.

No internal sequence is documented for this step — only the contract above and below it. Nothing was invented to fill the gap.

Must pass

Correct page count and order
All fonts embedded
No clipping/overlap/out-of-page content
Console/render errors zero

passes →

Outputs

Production rebuilt-issue PDFSeparate original/rebuilt QA PDFRender receipts and embedded-font report

hands off to Owner/reviewer · Authorized publication

fails →

HOLD

PDF_PAGE_ORDER_FAILPDF_FONT_NOT_EMBEDDEDPDF_CONTENT_CLIPPEDPDF_RENDER_ERROR

Nothing continues on a failed gate. Uncertainty becomes an explicit HOLD, and no later step may read an unanswered item as an accepted one.

Non-scope — what this role does NOT own

Deciding page content
Mixing original scans into the production newspaper

Explicitly forbidden

Insert original pages into the production rebuild
Use hidden full-page source images
Clip or omit content

Dependencies and position

Starts: Only from QA-eligible PagePackages.
Previous step: 23 QA
Next step: 25 DGTL
Hands off to: Owner/reviewer, Authorized publication

Exact inputs

Swept substrate
Exact CAP DOM text
TYPE plan
Supported PIC/TABLE assets
Issue page order

Exact outputs

Production rebuilt-issue PDF
Separate original/rebuilt QA PDF
Render receipts and embedded-font report

Performer and AI/ML boundary

Performer: Deterministic pinned HTML/browser/PDF renderer.
Class: Deterministic
AI boundary: None.

Training information

Not a trained component. No model, no weights, no training corpus. Behaviour is fixed by code and configuration, and identical inputs must produce identical outputs.

Deterministic validation and acceptance gates

Correct page count and order
All fonts embedded
No clipping/overlap/out-of-page content
Console/render errors zero

HOLD and failure behaviour

Failure codes this step may emit:

PDF_PAGE_ORDER_FAIL
PDF_FONT_NOT_EMBEDDED
PDF_CONTENT_CLIPPED
PDF_RENDER_ERROR

Uncertainty becomes an explicit HOLD. Omission never converts uncertainty into acceptance, and no downstream step may treat an unanswered item as an accepted one.

Downstream handoff

Owner/reviewer, Authorized publication

Active tool

Status: Partial
Run / inspect: python tools/export_original_rebuilt_pdf.py
Input: QA-passed page packages in issue page order
Output: original-then-rebuilt QA PDF

Dependencies

Python 3.12 (NOT installed on this machine)
Pinned font, shaping engine, browser/PDF engine, locale and colour profile

Why this is the active version

This exporter produces the original-then-rebuilt QA PDF, which is one of the two PDFs the owner's corrected pipeline requires. The separate production PDF — rebuilt pages only — is not produced by any tool. Only QA-passed page packages may enter either, and step 23 currently returns HOLD, so neither PDF is release-eligible today.

Copied files — source receipt

File	Original SHA-256	Bytes	Copy
`export_original_rebuilt_pdf.py`	1f2dc7bbe4eb4cdf…	14,720	verified
`renderer.config.json`	fb11adfe58114e81…	4,481	verified

2 file(s), all hash-verified against the original. Full detail in tool/SOURCE_RECEIPT.json. Copy-only: the historical source is never modified.

Archived versions

No superseded versions recorded for this role.

Known limitations

Only the original-then-rebuilt QA PDF is produced. The production PDF of rebuilt pages alone is not implemented.
Nothing is release-eligible today because step 23 returns HOLD.
Byte-level determinism is not proven and must not be claimed; only raster comparison across repeated builds has been considered.

Security and privacy

Operates on frozen local artifacts. No credentials required. No data leaves the machine.

Cost behaviour

No provider calls. No metered cost. Compute is local.

Copying a tool into this repository does not authorise running it, retraining it, calling a model, or processing a new issue. No paid call may be made without the owner's explicit authorisation and a hard cost cap.

Provenance

Registry: registry/roles.json (schema marsoom.e2t.roles.v1)
Derivation: 28 legacy roles - VER - HUMAN + REV = 27 active steps
Legacy role id: PDF
Legacy source SHA-256: 6f5d5d7ed8869e45307424c2193f95ffab84abc44a6a188f5c7f98c2a48ec64d
Generated: 2026-09-04T22:13:12.433Z

Feedback and decisions

Feedback is recorded per source and never merged into an invented consensus. Where sources disagree, both positions stand and the owner decides.

Source	Events
Naser / owner Final authority. Overrides every other source.	none recorded
Codex / orchestrator Architecture and sequencing.	none recorded
Builder / designer Implementation reality and constraints.	none recorded
Independent reviewer Adversarial review of claims.	none recorded
Auditor Evidence verification against artifacts.	none recorded
Human REV reviewer Page-level truth from the review site.	none recorded

Recorded events

No feedback events recorded yet. The ledger exists and is append-only: feedback/FEEDBACK_LEDGER.jsonl.

Editing feedback is not possible: a change is a new event whose supersedes names the one it replaces, and the original stays exactly as written.

Generated from registry/roles.json by tools/build-reports.mjs. Do not hand-edit — edit the registry and rebuild.
Original page pixels are the visual authority. CAP owns the exact captured text.