Last time I needed to fill a form I used Evince (in Ubuntu before I started 
using OpenBSD) it apparently worked fine, why don't you try it.



----- Original Message ----
> From: Predrag Punosevac <punoseva...@gmail.com>
> To: misc@openbsd.org
> Sent: Mon, January 4, 2010 10:20:52 PM
> Subject: Editing PDF files
> 
> I hope, I am not going to annoy too many people with this rather general
> question. 
> 
> I have some PDF form that I need to fill in. I thought that I would be 
> able to accomplish the job in couple of minutes. Namely, my idea was
> to convert PDf file to PS file and then to use pstoedit to convert the
> PostScript file into fig file. Then like in old good times I would just
> add text to fig file and export to PDF. Just to be on the safe side I 
> was to do the above process a single page at the time. 
> 
> My problem is that pstoedit is producing a huge non-usable fig file.
> 
> What would be more claver way to accomplish above task short of buying
> Acrobat or using on-line PDF editing tools and exposing my private 
> information.
> 
> I heard that KOffice and Scribe have the ability to edit PDF file as
> well as Gimp. I am somewhat familiar with PDFEdit even though it is not
> ported to OpenBSD and not very enthusiastic about its abilities.
> 
> Most Kind Regards,
> Predrag Punosevac

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