(responding to 4 posts)
Thank-you, everyone, for trying to help.
(Samuel)
I think it's acrobat reader.
That was enough to look it up.
It is available for windows-7 (but not
Linux); it is free; but patching/updating is not user-controllable. I
don't know if it allows the user to fill in dorms.
(Chris)
Does anyone know if the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader will run on Wine?
Red, white, or rose? Based on what Samuel said earlier in this thread,
I wonder if it would work even on Everclear!
(just kidding)
(Dave)
I don't have a sample .pdf to try but I always try to get around
permissions issues by running as root, so sudo evince and see if
that helps
This is not a question of file permissions (like those that can be
changed by "chmod"). This is a different kind of permissions problem.
To be sure, I checked the file's permissions, and I have both read and
write permissions. I also tried your suggestion to run evince as root;
I still could not fill in the form.
Next week, I will try to find the form in the company's web site;
hopefully they provide a web page for filling it in. Otherwise, I'll
have to print the form, fill it in by hand, and snail mailing it back to
the company.