Export Dynamic XFA form to PDF

Greetings,
I am a developer on an ASP.Net web application. I have the need to export a dynamic XFA PDF to a "flat" PDF or image. With Acrobat Pro I can export the formt to PostScript and then use Distiller to convert back to PDF. This is essentially what I want to do. Is there any way to accomplish this without user interaction server-side. I know LiveCycle is one option but is cost probhitive for this project.
Thanks

I do not know if I have understood to you well. My English is not very good. If your form is fixed and you want to interchange the fields, I can help you. You save the form in designer in format PDF, and in an accessible place from Notes, for example scheduler in a pagina of Notes. Now only you must create the file XDP that represents the data of the form, doing reference to where it is form pdf. For example, a simple form whith two fields, I generate the XDP file following, and when is opened in adobe reader show the fields in the form <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xfa generator="XFA2_0" APIVersion="1.4.4127.0"?> <xdp:xdp xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/pdf/" xmlns:dxl="http://www.lotus.com/dxl" xmlns:xdp="http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/" xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/"> <xfa:datasets> <xfa:data> <form> <subForm> <cNombre>Antonio</cNombre> <cApellidos>Garcia Rodriguez</cApellidos> </subForm> </form> </xfa:data> </xfa:datasets> <pdf href="page/File/formPersonaLocal.pdf?OpenElement"/> </xdp:xdp>

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