I am wondering if iText or some other PDF java library could use PDF files as templates? The PDF templates can contain tags, like ~FIRST_NAME~,~DESCRIPTION~ or similar that is changes to dynamic contents from an application/database.
Using PDF as your "template" format for variable data publishing (VDP) isn't the best approach - your are much better off working with a more flexible format for your templates (HTML, XML, RTF), performing the substitution and then converting to PDF..
This should be use to personalise documents to different receivers. The orginal PDF file is not generated internal so I can not generate the PDF from XML or similar, then I whould use that solution.
OH....
I saw that maybe Form fields could be used and with software be replaced with dynamic data/text and then flatten the file, but is there some solution of not using Form fields?
No, you want to use form fields...any other approach is doomed to failure using PDF templates.
Leonard
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