Create fillable forms that automatically fill out a letter

Hi, so I'm new to acrobat (and adobe in general) and I wnated to know if anyone had a way of doing this. So what I want to do is to create a form that takes people's information. It will take things like Names, Phone numbers, emails, etc. Then, it will ask them to choose what kind of form they want to create. So, it could be a letter, or a memo, whatever. Based on their choice, I then want to make another form, with all of their information filled in for them, appear. I've made a form for the first part, but I would like to know if anyone could explain how to do the second part, where it creates the new page for me.

If the end user is using Adobe Reader to fill this out then no, it isn't possible.
I can say whether it would be possible if all parties are using Adobe Acrobat but I doubt that it is.
You chould probably look in to creating a web application that can generate a PDF.

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4)How does Adobe keep track?
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