My company needs to generate documents on the fly and we are looking to find a solution where we can associate the data elements with the PDF template fields and at runtime we fill in application data to generate the documents.
We don't need anything fancier that this but have following requirements :
1> Our customers need to create PDF templates and the data bindings based on the XSD we provide to them - What can we do here?
A. Do they need to have LiveCycle Designer installed on their desktops?
B. Or, Can we provide a website where we embed the LiveCycle Designer so that the customers can design their PDFs and Data Mappings there?
2> Provided that we get PDF templates with the data bindings can these be transferred across the servers? Meaning can the customers provide us their PDF Templates and we fill the PDFs on the fly on our end using Livecycle Output Server? Does it work this way or the server and the designer both need to be part of one integrated system?
3>Do we need the Enterprise suit for this? Or Output Server and Output designer can be independently purchased and used?
4>The PDFs designed via output designer, can these be used by some third party PDF interpreter software such as iText? Will it retain and expose the data bindings anywhere except the Output Server?
5> What are the pricing for each of these : Output Designer, Output Server and Enterprise Suit?
I am sorry if these are irrelevant questions, but I am not able to find the answers myself anywhere over the Internet.
Any responses will help!
Thanks in advance