Create PDF from structured data

Question

I want to be able to create graphically (with a lot of text content) a PDF file from data that can be in a database or xml or any other structured form.

Currently, our graphic designer creates these PDF files in Photoshop manually after receiving the contents as an MS Word document. But, as a rule, there are more than 20 content changes; small changes here and there, spelling corrections, etc.

Two drawbacks: 1) The time of the graphic designer is too busy. The first version is the only one he will have to work on. 2) The PDF file becomes a document that now has the final processed content, and the original content is not synchronized with it. Therefore, if the source content should be somewhere else (for example, on a website), we need to recreate it from a PDF file.

Creating a PDF file will help me solve both of these problems. Perhaps in some way the graphic designer creates the "Template" and then puts it in tags / holders and matches these tags / holders with the corresponding data.

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