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Apologies if this has been posted in the wrong forum, I wasn't quite sure on which forum best fitted the question.
I have a hopefully simple question, which I would like to thank everyone in advance for any help/advice that can be offered. We have a PDF document (help file and tutorial as the content) that we would like to dynamically populate with text depending on a resource bundle file. About 90% of this PDF document would remain static, but a small percent would be taken from another document (if this is the way it would be done) referenced from the PDF. So we would only have to change this smaller document each time we generate and deploy to another client. Is there any plug-in or application that can assist in this process? I think it would be similar to a mail merge process.
TIA,
-Gs
I'd love to know how it's done.
Thanks for taking the time out to reply to my post! I *think* turbo taxes might use something like the PDF Template functionality bundled in Acrobat.
-Gs
Answer to original question.
I don't think pdf has the option of including external files. The closest thing I can think of would be something like ...
1) save your small file as an EPS
2) have your finalized pdf saved as a ps
3) include the eps in the ps (both of these formats are ascii so it is easy to script)
4) convert the ps into a pdf
Several years ago I did something like this when printing receipts (all except converting to pdf), so it is possible. I don't know of any commercial software to do it, but it isn't hard to program. ps and eps are both straight forward formats, pdf is okay and there are free tools for converting between the formats.
