what are the various approaches for generating PDFs?

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I have an idea for an app that would take some flash content which contains graphics and images like various geometric shapes and polygons and some random images and convert them to PDF.

Also, since I envision this app to be used my multiple users I want this process to be quick and scalable. One possible solution I could think of is have a small flash client with the capability of assembling the above mentioned graphics and images. Generate some sort of XML, send it to a server running a Java process which could render the PDF using iText.

I was wondering what are the other possible ways to do it or the best practices. Technology isn't an issue; open source or commercial.

I am looking for ideas to make the process fast and scalable. Most importantly, I don't want the back end server side PDF render engine to constraint the flash client capabilities.

I would appreciate if you could share your tech stack idea. Thanks a lot!

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