Michael Doob wrote:

If you are familiar with LaTeX, the program pdflatex (included with every standard distribution) will give you a pdfile in one step.

Cheers, Michael

I may in fact use a LaTeX template, convert to pdf, then edit the pdf. I am moderately familiar with LaTeX, but I haven't done some of the fancier things.

One problem I have had in the past is filling or replicating forms. LaTeX will allow you to create boxes to enclose text, but what happens when the box is full? What I would want is to automatically resize the font so that everything will fit in the form's box. Is there an easy way to do this? Is there a package for forms?