How to put form data into a .pdf?

Are you looking for a prepackaged solution? What level of programming or scripting are you comfortable with? What are the technical details? The only way I've personally done dynamic PDF generation has been with perl and http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/10/16/fop.html. It was kind of a mess, and I wasn't even putting it together from scratch -- just updating an existing system.

Adobe has document workflow management and lifecycle stuff that you might look into. It is not an HTML form, but it is pretty awesome insofar as the topic is concerned. see, for example, http://www.adobe.com/products/server/formmanager/

LaTeX is good for this kind of thing, I did something similar a while back. Just make a template latex source file, fill in the blanks with sed, and run pdflatex. If you need more flexibility in the form, process the source file with some templating system (I like perl tt).

To attempt to answer these questions: Ideally, I'd find some inexpensive/free scripts that handled this or could be pieced together to do so. I am no expert at php/js scripting -- typically at the take-an-existing-script-and-modify-it level. I'd love a PHP-based solution. I'll check into the Adobe idea -- straight to the source. From a quick glance, it looks a little too large (and probably costly) for my application. But, it might be a good jumping-off point. Any online examples of how to implement the LaTeX idea?

If you have PHP available... FPDF works very well. http://www.fpdf.org/

FPDF requires the documents be recreated, correct? I guess I should explain my situation further. I have pre-existing (fixed in terms of look/feel, fonts, type sizing, style, etc.) documents that need to be customized before printing. There are a handful of text fields for each document that should be dynamically entered (think 'Address' on a flyer).

I'd also heard a recommendation for XData + Quark. I don't currently have a copy of Quark, but it wouldn't be prohibitive to purchase one. XData (http://www.thepowerxchange.com/xdata_1536_prd1.html), this might be the link. Has anyone used something similar?

FPDF is probably your best bet for an automated solution. You can import a template PDF using http://fpdi.setasign.de/index.php?p=home, and then use FPDF to place your form field data. I'm working on a project now for a large, very image conscious client that uses it. Works great.

@Wild_Eep -- Wow, that seems almost dead-on to what I'm trying to do. Is there a chance you'd be interested in talking about some of the details? If so, my email address is in my profile. Thanks in advance...