Insert text in a pdf (adobe) document

[shapiro]

I hope I am in the right forum. Whenever I save a document in a pdf form
(adobe) I am unable to insert text in the document. Notice IRS has their pdf
form for eg.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040ez.pdf

You can only insert your name,address ,social security # etc but you cannot
change the rest of the document. I am using Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard

I tried exporting adobe document to word and excel but you cannot insert
anything into the document. Do I need to buy special software?

Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is not an appropriate newsgroup for Adobe Acrobat issues at all (you
should find an Adobe NG), but I can tell you that a fillable form in Acrobat
is just the same as one in Word: you're meant to be able to fill in the
fields allowed for data entry, while you are prevented from editing the rest
of the document. That's the whole idea of a protected form. I can't imagine
why you would be wanting to try to edit the form itself (you wouldn't be
able to do that with a printed form), but Acrobat Standard does not allow
creating forms (for that you have to have the Professional version), so I
imagine it does not permit editing them, either.