title: Installing PDFTK on a shared web server
body: <p>My web sites are hosted on Total Choice Hosting using some kind of Linux (I don't know what precise variety) and Apache. I don't have command line access - I can run command line programs only via exec() in PHP, or via CRON jobs.</p>
  
  <p>Can I install and use PDFTK on a system like this?</p>
  
  <p>If so, what exactly do I have to do? Which files do I have to copy where? Do I have to rebuild PDFTK from source, or is there an executable version somewhere?</p>
  
  <p>Since (as I understand it) PDFTK is based on iText, which is written in Java. Maybe I'd be better off using the original iText package?</p>
  
  <p>Or is there a better way of doing what I want to do (which is basically to merge and flatten a PDF file (blank form) with a FDF file (field values) into a new PDF file (the completed form) and download it to the user)? Is there some native PHP or Python or Perl code to do this?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks - Rowan</p>