Create personalised PDF certificates for a group and then send them as attachments to the individuals.

I need to create individual PDF 'Certificates of Attendance' for every person who attended an event. Each needs to bear the name of the person.  I then need to email each person their own certificate. I was hoping there was a merge function that would allow me to create the personalised certificates and then send the certificate to each person in one (or two) actions. Is this possible?