Pringle, Ron wrote: > It looks like this tool might be what you're looking for [0], though it doesn't look serverside? > I've not done any work with any of these tools, so I could be entirely wrong. > [0] http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ > [1] http://www.fpdf.org/en/FAQ.php#17 > [2] http://www.fpdf.org/en/script/script9.php > [3] http://thierry.schmit.free.fr/dev/mbtPdfAsm/enMbtPdfAsm2.html Thanks Ron. I had not noticed pdftk, that's a great start; and indeed fpdi may do what I need after all -- I didn't read far enough, many pages on the fpdi site give a lot of attention to its pdf templates feature. However I'd love to hear from someone who has been down a similar road before. Also since I wrote I've been told the client wants to keep the initial cost low; I recalled that Sitepoint had a newsletter article[0] about PDF Stamping recently, but the el cheapo solution is Win-only (go figure) while their chosen solution was $4500. [0] http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=3&issue=154#7 -- Max Schwanekamp NeptuneWebworks.com 541-255-2171