HELP:Merging External File (JPG/PDF) into XDP/XML Merged PDF on Client

I need some serious help pointing me in the right direction.
What I have...and is working:
I have an Invoice Template/PDF/Form created by LiveCycle with form fields. When requested by the user, in real-time I send XML from my server that is merged with the PDF template to create a single PDF file with multiple pages of invoices. Each invoice fits on one page. Works great...technically I think this is called or used XDP to merge the two on the client computer with a PDF and XML being supplied by the server.
The server is just a generic Unix/PHP/MySQL environment...no Adobe products are installed (or can be installed on that machine). I rely entirely on the client's computer to assemble and create the finished PDF.
What I NEED:
So the client is now asking that I be able to insert receipts into the invoice PDF stream. So in order words you would still have the invoices above, but if we happen to have scanned receipts for a given invoice, they want those embedded into the PDF. A finished product would look like:
Page 1 - Invoice 00001
Page 2 - Receipt #1 for Invoice 0001
Page 3 - Receipt #2 for Invoice 0001
Page 4 - Invoice 00002
Page 5 - Invoice 00003
Page 6 - Receipt #1 for Invoice 0003
etc.
Can someone point me in the right direction to make this happen?
Perfect world, I would like to have the invoices be actual images of the receipts (assume we need to have a JPG or PDF scan of the receipt)
Okay world, I guess we could just attach the actual document so if it is XLS, DOC, PDF...etc...I don't need to convert...just attach.
Last choice, I could just include hyperlinks back to our server for the client to click on and open the receipt document as we store it.

From your post it sounds like you are Central Pro (a product for which I am by no means an expert), but you say you want to upgrade to a newer product from your "legacy" one. Is there a reason for this? Have your requirements change so that it no longer fits them? Central is still in the current Adobe roster and as far as I know there is no plans to get rid of it any time soon, so if it does everything you want I don't see why you would want to change.
There is no product in the LiveCycle suite that merges xml data into a form from the command line. LiveCycle (with the exception of Designer) is a suite of server products, so the closest you would come is LiveCycle Forms (merge the xml and create a fillable PDF) or LiveCycle Print (merge the xml and print the form).
Hope this helps somewhat.
Chris
Adobe Enterprise Developer Support

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