Webforms Populate to PDF Forms

In Forms Central How do you have answers from a webform to populate or transfer over to a document in PDF Format ?

thanks for the link. But i see that it says " Export a response to a PDF File that matches the Form Design".
My webform is a summarized shorter version of the actual paper application that is in PDF format. So depending on what it means by form design, the application that is in PDF format is longer in questions than the Webform. So when it says " that matches the Form Design", does it mean exactly word for word ? because in my case it wouldn't. Again all i want is the answers of the Webform to be transfered over to the actual Paper Application which is in PDF Format .

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Try the forum for LiveCycle Designer.

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Reading Data into a PDF form with cfpdfform and cfpdfformparam

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Pre-populated PDF forms and form submission

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Database to PDF Form

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I put a job post on elance.com and found a heap of guys who could do this.

How-to cfpdfform pre-fill a pdf form

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PDF Forms Workflow

Hi,
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Workflow:
Customer uploads a PDF document to the website
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Firstly what i'm trying to accomplish, is it actually possible.Second what kind of tools would you recommend for the proposed solution. I have looked into the Adobe Live Cycle solutions, but I'm not really sure how I would use that.
Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi,
The reason I need to convert it to png/jpg and back to pdf is that I need to header and footer info onto the documents uploaded and that changes from client to client.
As far as having them rotate the documents, I wish that were the case, but all the customers that we get are pretty much computer illiterate, getting them to upload and actually enter data on the website itself is a challenge. So I never really considered that possibility.
I'm not necessarily looking to spend that much money on buying extra software as I already have too much money invested in this product. I'm definitely open for more suggestions as well as open source solutions.
Any other ideas on how to accomplish the above?
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We used to fill out the forms at work longhand (yes, with a pen!)
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