Dynamic PDF Creator Replacement Widget

Hi,
I'm trying figure out I can get a widget similar to Dynamic PDF Export that was sold by CaptivateDev.com - eLearning Development with Adobe Captivate
Now that they closed there door...I'm stuck it's the exact widget I needed.
My goal is to capture user input and compile a completed 'Take away Workbook" from the questions that were answered.
Any other way to accomplish this?
-Rob

I'm pretty good with Captivate and advanced actions; but once java is involved I do get a little lost.
Can you give me a little bit of direction on how to make the connection between the external library, captivate and the javascript pdf thing.
I have an email out a web designer with our company but he won't know Captivate so I'll need to give them a little bit of support.
Thanks
Rob

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From: Richard Finegan[SMTP:[email protected]]
Reply To: Richard Finegan
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 1998 2:27 PM
To: 'Forte Users Mailing List'
Subject: Dynamically mapping data to widgets
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with
assigning "Widget.AppData" to a new object, but I can't seem to get it
to
do anything...
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