

Thankfully, there's a free and easy workaround.

And unless the file was generated in such a way as to allow editing (by which I mean the addition of text, like for a form), you often have little option but to print it, fill it out by hand, then scan or fax it wherever it needs to go. That's not too surprising when you consider that a PDF is really just an image, not raw text. PDFs are great for sharing documents, but not always for editing them. I can open it, but there's no way to fill it out. "I have to get this form turned in before 5, but the printer's broken.
