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What's the best way to create a dynamic, downloadable PDF that incorporates user-entered variables?

I don't know of any WordPress plugin to do this but I have experience from a high volume business angle if that helps. We would create a PDF template with fillable form fields for the various customized pieces and use a tool such as ABCPDF or ActivePDF to fill them dynamically with the content and then flatten them to remove the form fields. These products cost money, but work well in a very high volume environment. Using multiple servers we've been able to create up to 60,000 an hour. I'm quite sure that there are free tools that will do the same thing, but I can't vouch for their reliability or ease of use.

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So my suggestion is to find a service that works for your needs, but I highly recommend searching around on the web to see if there's something useful here. Now this sounds like the perfect candidate for an external solution, and I'd love for WordPress to have an option for such a thing, but to get there you need a way to hook into the WordPress data model for that kind of thing. I don't know what the magic bullet is that I'm searching for on this, but I'd like to know how.