>Do you still have a solution for the Acord AL3 files? I also am looking for a cost effective solution.

My apologies. For the population of the data fields on the PDF, we used VFP and Gnostic PDF so we could populate the AL3 form from VFP based on data entered in a vfp form (I used the tag property to tie the PDF field to the vfp form field and wrote a recursive utility to do the actual populating. For parsing AL3 files (xml to vfp objects or xml to C# objects, etc), I wrote a utility to do this in VFP actually, but when I was contacted to sell it, my employer at the time took possession and ownership of it (not worth the hassle of legal maneuvering with a large financial institution.) It was hosted here for a short period of time until the legal stuff started.... If you are looking to populate the AL3 pdf files from VFP, then I recommend looking at Gnostice toolkit (if still available). If you have search ability, I think I have examples or at least a description of it in threads here. There are a couple of steps to accomplish this. Google al3 parse al3 parsing and al3 explorer. It's been over 12 years since I coded this though so there is probably something much more useful available and more of a turnkey solution by now.

I googled to see if I could find anything for the parser and *surprisingly* the following video looks very very similar to the utility I did....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IdkYpw1IRk

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