HowTo/Best Practice: Fill existing PDF Form by Reports

Hi,
we have a pdf form which should be filled by Reports.
We don't want to build this form manually in Reports with all the fields and graphics.
Is there a way to transform an existing pdf form to rdf?
Can we use this pdf as background inside the rdf?
Does anybody has other ideas to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance!
Florian.

Thanks, Rainer,
am I right? You are describing the BI-Publisher way... unfortunately customer has no BIP... :-(
There is just Oracle Reports.
The approach of Andreas (+"For using it as background, create an item out of the pdf and import it using Insert->Image"+) doesn't work for me because customer needs RTF output.
And there is a bug in RTF generation of Reports:
If you generate RTF output with images inside and you use MS Office 2003/2007 for viewing/editing then images are scaled to 133% :-(

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