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WT… PDF?

I am working on a project for work that requires the merging of two PDFs. One PDF needs to be an editable PDF and needs to be populated with data from a MySQL database. This combined PDF then needs to be sent to the user's browser for download. I figured out how to combine two test PDFs and I figured out how to populate an editable PDF via PHP. However, the scripts that can combine PDFs seem to only work reliably with PDFs that are version 1.4 or lower. And, of course, the editing functionality doesn't seem to be available in PDF version 1.4. Soooo, I can do one or the other. I can combine the PDFs or I can populate the PDF with data.

I am going to next look into Adobe's Live Cycle software which they don't seem to list pricing for. Should be interesting.