I swear I used to be able to do this in Adobe Acrobat without a paid subscription. Now I can't. And I don't mean editing, I mean merely filling them out, too.
You know those PDFs you get everywhere, including government agencies, that are fillable? No chance anymore unless you're paying Adobe.
Google Drive won't do it, Acrobat demands tribute, Evince won't do it. (Evince is my preferred PDF app on Windows 10, primarily because it's so lightweight and mostly-compatible.)
I suppose, if I am facing the need to fill another PDF soon, I could download Firefox and see how that goes. I don't really need/use Firefox day to day anyway. I try to keep my installed app base small.
Have you tried the pdf viewer of your browser (Chrome-based)? That might work. I’m usually using Apple’s Preview app (which has very solid PDF editing features), but I suspect that you’re not on macOS.
Well, I was going to test editing right now on a fillable government form, but eVince insists that it is password protected, and opening it in Adobe Acrobat proves that it is indeed not password protected.
So I must have some sort of malware edition of eVince.
Confirmed; Evince 2.32.0 for Windows is wholly incapable of filling forms or editing PDFs. Its confusion about password-protection seems confined to certain individual documents. I can view 'em fine, I can't change 'em.
I remember my dad asked for help rotating a PDF from portrait to landscape on his Windows PC and realizing he'd have to buy software to do it. It takes one click on MacOS. It made me determined not to get adobe out of principle and I did end up finding https://smallpdf.com/ by a Swiss team. The free tier has a lot of features that adobe paywalls like editing and signature requests and it loads fast.
I swear I used to be able to do this in Adobe Acrobat without a paid subscription. Now I can't. And I don't mean editing, I mean merely filling them out, too.
You know those PDFs you get everywhere, including government agencies, that are fillable? No chance anymore unless you're paying Adobe.
Google Drive won't do it, Acrobat demands tribute, Evince won't do it. (Evince is my preferred PDF app on Windows 10, primarily because it's so lightweight and mostly-compatible.)
I suppose, if I am facing the need to fill another PDF soon, I could download Firefox and see how that goes. I don't really need/use Firefox day to day anyway. I try to keep my installed app base small.