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Martin Gregorie   wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:14:18 +1300, mark lewis wrote:
>> my understanding is that PDFs with fillable forms in them are meant to
>> be filled when using a PDF viewer... i don't see how libreoffice comes
>> into play,
>>
>Apparently the US tax people are expecting people to do this.
>
>The commonest one, xpdf, is explicitly a viewer only and qpdfview only
>allows rotation and scaling. According to Wikipedia the only programs
>that explicitly allow you to edit an existing PDF file and run under
>Linux are:
>
>LibreOffice Draw, OpenOffice Draw, PDFedit, Pdftk, PDF Studio and Karbon
>
>Of this lot, I've only heard of the first two until now and others have
>said that Pdftk is just a set of command line tools, nor with a GUI front
>end and are a faff to use.
>
>So what do you use to edit PDF files?

The OP refers only to filling out forms, not editing them..."editing" would
imply a bit more than merely filling out a form.  If you're looking for
something that will let you fill out a PDF form, Okular works well for that
purpose.  I've done my taxes with it (and a calculator) the past several
years.

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