Dynamicaly insert data on documents (iWork or Mac Office)

Hi!
I am not sure if there is any method that could be possible doint what I am looking for, in windows envoirment development I can have my app to open a word document and inject data on certain fields.
I currently have a Filemaker Pro 12 app that generates documents with data pushed from database, but those document layouts are background PDFs. What I am looking for is that I could call iWork (Page or Numbers) or Mac Office (Word or Excel) and inject data there.
I think the route will be Office, since late iWork Numbers and Pages version its crap because Apple now even cuted the AppleScript options to work with.
Other options are maybe PDFs with fileds but dont know if PDF are "injectable"...
I am looking for a good starting (or best approach) point or quit and let this work at it is.
thanx
Vitor
Portugal/Lisbon

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I work in academia and mostly use iWork. The documents that I pass on to my students and colleagues as well as the documents that I receive from my students and colleagues are almost always perfectly translated from Office by Pages. There have only been a few rare exceptions where a document I've received won't translate well. While I've been testing Pages since it was first released I've also been testing NeoOffice and the documents Pages cannot read NeoOffice has. NeoOffice is a freeware Office clone. In my testing I've also learned what to avoid so that my Pages documents will properly export to Office. Again, NeoOffice has been invaluable. I do have Office on my computer, though if I were required to pay for it I'd not have bothered. NeoOffice is good enough mostly.
So, could you get by with iWork? Yes. Should you? Since you are a student you are eligible for the Student/Home version of Office which runs about $130, not quite twice as much as iWork. If on the whole, your work will be done in Word for academic style papers, I think the answer is yes - just be sure to download either NeoOffice or OpenOffice so you can learn what not to do. If you'll also be doing presentations, you'll find that the compatibility between Keynote and PowerPoint is disappointing. Your Keynote presentations will export and PowerPoint presentations will load into Keynote. The problem is your Keynote presentations will lose something in the translation. If you'll be using Excel – buy Office.

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