Hi,
(f29) I need something, preferably from one of the usual repos (so I can easily install it with dnf), that I can use to fill in a pdf form. I can view the form just fine, but nothing seems to have functionality for me to fill it in. I did not see anything in "dnfdragora".
Having never dealt with any such forms, I had a quick look, and found this example, which suggests Open Office can create them:
http://foersom.com/net/HowTo/data/OoPdfFormExample.pdf
Saved it, loaded it in Atril document viewer (in Mate), filled in some details, then saved a copy of the document. I opened that copy, and it displays all the details that I typed in.
What I don't know about PDF forms is: Are they just intended to print out a page like you've filled it in, or are they supposed to be machine processable to extract your typed-in data? (Which seems a very dumb requirement in this modern online world, with a couple of decades of HTML forms already fulfilling that purpose.)
And if the latter is true (of a program being able to parse out your PDF form data), does what I tried work fully?