Welcome

Many Web applications will have reporting functionality. A common practice is to use HTML pages with special style-sheets to print a report. Layout problems, text wrapping and other appearance issues, are known problems with this approach.

Better, more professional results can be achieved when reports are based on the standard Adobe PDF. PDF is a universal document format that preserves document layout, font styles and faces, colors and graphics of the original document and can be viewed by any person with Adobe's free Acrobat Reader software.

Developing PDF document creation software using your report data can be time-consuming task depending on the tools, components or frameworks you use. One approach is to use PDF Forms as templates. A Form is a finished, well designed, PDF document with place-holders such as text fields. A PDF report can be created by merging the data with a PDF Form.

ServePDF.com provides a Web service that will use your data to fill all the fields in your PDF Form and return the finished PDF directly to the browser or send it by email. For the most popular technologies, API libraries are freely available which are ready to use by application developers.