How Do I Save a Fillable PDF as Read Only? In Power PDF, select Advanced Processing. Select the Process option. Select “Flatten” and adjust options to remove the necessary form elements. Click OK and save your new flattened document.
Drag & drop the PDF you want to make fillable. In the Annotate tab, Click “Add text box”. Click where you want to insert a form field and type your placeholder text. Add an underline or box to create empty fields to fill out (see below).
Filling Out Non-Interactive PDF Forms with PDFpen Select the Text tool. Place the cursor where you want to add text. Next, drag to create a text box. Type your response in the text box you just created. Your text will appear in PDFpen's default font and color. Repeat the steps above to complete the remaining document.
Make sure that the security settings allow form filling. (See File > Properties > Security.) Make sure that the PDF includes interactive, or fillable, form fields. Sometimes form creators forget to convert their PDFs to interactive forms, or they intentionally design a form you can only fill in by hand.