You can merge a PDF form with data without 3rd party tools. You need a single FDF or XFDF data source (specially formatted text file) to merge with the PDF Form. I started with the book "Creating Adobe Acrobat Forms" by Ted Padova, and had to dig online to figure a few other things out, such as the fact that you 'serve up' the data file, and it then fetches the form that it belongs to.

OTOH, stitching multiple PDF forms into a single document, AFAIK, requires 3rd party tools. If you find a good tool for that, please let me know. I'm looking... <g>



>Heya Claude - will this one handle DATA MERGING
>between data tags in a pre-existing pdf file
>and a data stream [say line one coming from VFP] ??
>
>I think that was Calvin's original question [but I could be wrong].
>
>mondo regards [Bill]
>>I didn't see it on that page, but, there's also Print2PDF here in the downloads which is a foxpro wrapper around ghostscript - also completely free...
>>>>Help please. Are there any royalty free tools out there that would allow data merge with PDF forms? Thanks for any info.
>>>
>>>Heya Calvin -
>>>there is discussion on pdf tools on the wiki -
>>>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~PDFdrivers~SoftwareEng
>>>
>>>one of them, 995pdf - will do it IIF the pdf form was created with the 995pdf tool, and is royalty free.
>>>
>>>mondo regards [Bill]