Dynamic PDF Creation

Has anyone used server based PDF creation components? I am
after some recomendations as I am sure someone here must have used
one before.
All I want to do is use a template on the server, and
populate fields from a database when requested. It needs to be able
to add photos that have been uploaded as well.
This is all the functionality I require, and there seems to
be many many packages available that seem to cost the earth and do
a lot more than I need. I have been trying to find one that does
what I need and doesn't cost that much.
Any recommendations?
Cheers,
Steve

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:32:33 +0000 (UTC), "Doooza"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Has anyone used server based PDF creation components? I
am after some
>recomendations as I am sure someone here must have used
one before.
I played with
http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/ just
a bit. It seems easy enough
to use, but I haven't dug too deeply.

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