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> Use a LibreOffice/OpenOffice document as your template.

> The end-user will be happy, since he can create or modify pdf layouts himself.

On a side note, can Word/Excel/PowerPoint generate LO/OO documents? I'd like to use a service like this, but have had really poor experiences translating word and excel documents to LO.

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Not in a way that an end user would not be frustrated at some point. I could read those files, but the output could be too different from what an end user would expect.

You are not the first one to ask about doing this in/for Microsoft land.. I'm working on this. If you drop me a mail, I would come back to you once there is something to see.

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