Populate PDF

Hi
How Populate my PDF Form, with asp, or asp.net?
I have a PDF Form, and asp page
The asp page consulting data base form send data XML to pdf, How Populate my PDF Form with that data?
Thanks you

Hi Juan,
Take a look at Adobe's LiveCycle Forms product which is bases on J2EE. Using the Form Server Module API, you can create applications that perform form-rendering operations:
* Render a blank form or a form supplied with initial data to a client device (such as a web browser)
* Accept submitted data, retrieve and process the data, and render an updated form to a client application
* Process a form by running calculations and validations
* Obtain validation messages rendered for presentation to a specified client application
It offers a SOAP Client that can be used by asp.
Trevor

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