Fill in PDF forms

If you download forms from the web, you can actually fill them in by typing. Then you can print the completed forms, instead of printing them first and filling them in by hand. The PDF must have been created and saved in such a way that it has fields ready for you to enter data. That is, you just can't start entering data into any old PDF—it must be an actual form format.

After you save a form that you have filled in, you cannot edit any of the information you entered. You might want to save a clean copy of the file before you fill in the form.

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