I've already used iReport/JasperReport, iNetDesigner and others reporting systems with dedicated editor.
For a new project, I'm trying to get a template with placeholder like $NAME$, then merge/inject the actual data.
PDFBox can manipulate a PDF, there's an example that sounds interesting: ReplaceString takes a PDF file in input then replaces some text .... BUT!!!
I tried to produce a PDF template with LibreOffice then export to PDF, Word 2k and PDF Creator (a virtual printer) but none worked!
PDFBox reads always the text correctly, but with LibreOffice's PDF I need to encode/decode text, with PDF Creator's the text is plain but my placeholders are splitted along several COSString objects (1-3 chars each), making the replace a nightmare!
Is there a way to create (export) a PDF with the placeholder intact, or am I doomed to use a dedicated (and limited) editor?
