I need some serious help pointing me in the right direction.
What I have...and is working:
I have an Invoice Template/PDF/Form created by LiveCycle with form fields. When requested by the user, in real-time I send XML from my server that is merged with the PDF template to create a single PDF file with multiple pages of invoices. Each invoice fits on one page. Works great...technically I think this is called or used XDP to merge the two on the client computer with a PDF and XML being supplied by the server.
The server is just a generic Unix/PHP/MySQL environment...no Adobe products are installed (or can be installed on that machine). I rely entirely on the client's computer to assemble and create the finished PDF.
What I NEED:
So the client is now asking that I be able to insert receipts into the invoice PDF stream. So in order words you would still have the invoices above, but if we happen to have scanned receipts for a given invoice, they want those embedded into the PDF. A finished product would look like:
Page 1 - Invoice 00001
Page 2 - Receipt #1 for Invoice 0001
Page 3 - Receipt #2 for Invoice 0001
Page 4 - Invoice 00002
Page 5 - Invoice 00003
Page 6 - Receipt #1 for Invoice 0003
etc.
Can someone point me in the right direction to make this happen?
Perfect world, I would like to have the invoices be actual images of the receipts (assume we need to have a JPG or PDF scan of the receipt)
Okay world, I guess we could just attach the actual document so if it is XLS, DOC, PDF...etc...I don't need to convert...just attach.
Last choice, I could just include hyperlinks back to our server for the client to click on and open the receipt document as we store it.
