The principal procedure for creating a PDF DocumentType adhere to the same rules as creating a Word Docx DocumentType, and the procedure has been documented in detail in the following User’s Guide:
https://userguide.nortridge.com/topics/document-templates2.html
Only the Programmer/Developer/NLS ADMIN needs to install the Adobe Acrobat PRO (editor) at the Developer’s workstation to EDIT the PDF template.
https://userguide.nortridge.com/topics/installing-the-document-template.html
The USER’s workstation (WITH Adobe Acrobat READER only), the Custom Report will be generated/viewed within NLS.
Here is the PDF file in Acrobat Reader, you can see the fields highlighted in light blue are used for embed NLS key fields:
Here is same file in NLSPreview where the loan data has been populated into same embed key fields: