Create PDF from text fields in website

Hi!
Is it possible to hook up text fields in a website to a PDF document?
I have a website developed in Dreamweaver/asp and I would like the ability to create
a PDF based on values from different text fields (10-12).
Today we first insert the values to a webpage and then insert the same values to a PDF
made in Live Cycle, I'm thinking there have to be a way to automate this process.
Regards,
Christian

Hi Christian,
I am moving this over to our form gurus in hopes they can assist you!
Regards, Stacy

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