title: Creating a custom diploma from a designer template, filling in data
body: <p>I need to be able to create PDFs with printable diplomas for sports events (10K runs etc).</p>
  
  <p>A graphic designer creates a beautiful diploma with placeholder texts (name of participant, finish time) - and I need to get from that to a finished PDF (on the fly), which the participant can download.</p>
  
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  <li>What output should I get from the designer (file format, prepared in any special way)?</li>
  <li>How do I take that file, fill in data and generate PDF?</li>
  <li>How can this be accomplished using IText?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I have done a lot of generating PDFs from HTML and Word docs, but this is something new to me, so I am can't figure out where to start.</p>
  
  <p>My best idea right now is to have the designer export as PDF without placeholder text, but with x/y coordinates and font on where to input name, time etc... But I would prefer to not have to store the x/y coordinates, font etc - and just be able to fill in a "template"...</p>