Dynamic creation of PDF forms

I'm looking for possible ways to dynamically create PDF forms (not necessarily interactive):
Scenario:
An unknown number of text elements has to be placed on an unknown number of pages. These elements may come with positional and format attributes as part of the context data (and/or have positional data calculated as server side form script using JavaScript).
Question:
How do I create these elements dynamically?
Is it possible to add/delete elements (text elements, pages, content areas, ...) of the form using the XML Object Model in server side scripts?
What ways are there to maybe access the Adobe Document Services directly to submit the data and positional information (without having to create a "dummy" form which would contain the scripts to add all the required elements)?
I hope that I described my problem understandable, and that you can provide me with some helpful information, be it a different concept, parts of a solution or just links to helpful documents or infos.
Thanks,
Max

No, we do not support passing values into the form like that.
Randy

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