title: Automating PDF generation
body: <p>What would be a solid tool to use for generating PDF reports? Particularly, we are interested in creating interactive PDFs that have video, like the example found <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfdevjunkie/2008/09/best_practices_video_in_acroba.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. </p>
  
  <p>Right now we are using Python and <a href="http://www.reportlab.com/" rel="nofollow">reportlab</a> to generate PDFs, but have not explored the library completely (mostly because the license pricing is a little prohibitive)</p>
  
  <p>We have been looking at the Adobe's <a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/overview.html" rel="nofollow">SDK</a> and <a href="http://itextpdf.com/" rel="nofollow">iText</a> libraries but it's hard to say what the capabilities of either are.</p>
  
  <p>The ability to generate a document from a template PDF would be a plus.</p>
  
  <p>Any pointers or comments will be appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,</p>