Fill in Forms

How do I create a fill in form? Like a questionnaire type form?

You need to use a program that can add fie field objects to a PDF, that would be Acrobat or a 3rd party product.
You can create a form with OpenOffice.org's Writer program to include form fields and then export the odt document to a PDF and the form fields will carry over to the PDF. Note MS Word cannot perform this task.
You could create a PostScript file with the necessary code to add field objects and use Distiller to generate the PDF.

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