The second half of your challenge, AFAICS, is in principle the same as writing an on-the-fly PDF doc from any data source. If that's right, then it's a subject I've grappled with a little bit, and where I've found the existing PDF modules didn't do quite what I wanted for the most part - surprising, given what one comes to expect to find at CPAN, and a challenge for a module writer perhaps.
I settled on PDF::Create, which has relatively limited functionality, but is easy to learn and very much does what it says on the can. I also wrote some routines which are half way between script and module, that I used to extend its capabilities. They, and some other things you might find useful, are in this thread.
If you do find something that works, it would be interesting to know about it - good luck!
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The PDF library available on CPAN might help you get started. It should handle reading and writing the PDF. I don't know whether it would help in extracting data from the FDF files.
-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";
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I did a search for "PDF" on CPAN before I posted my question and came up with 99 matches. (Yikes!) I browsed the docs for the ones that looked most likely, but for the most part they seem to be oriented towards delving very deeply into the structure of PDF files -- and apparently don't mention FDF files at all. :-(
In contrast, Adobe's FDF Toolkit talks a lot about the FDF files -- but not about the PDF files. (Doh!)
Wally Hartshorn
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