Filling out a pdf form with preview

I need to fill out some government forms which are of course in a pdf format and they want them typed.  Before i go looking for a typewriter at the antique store, isn't there a way to do it and print it retaining the forms format?  Preview will allow me to do about 3 lines and then stops allowing input.  I've tried the google crap and from there the apache odt crap.  Tried it on a PC too with growing frustration and zero accomplished.

Preview will allow me to do about 3 lines and then stops allowing input.
That is quite strange. I fill out pdf forms with Preview, and it allows me to put as much text in as I want. I wonder if the problem is something inherent in the particular form you are trying to annotate. You might try Skim ( Download Skim for Mac - PDF Reader and note-taker for scientific papers. MacUpdate.com ) which is an app I used to use to annotate pdfs until I discovered that that functionality was already present in Preview. I don't know if you can post that form here or elsewhere and I could try to annotate it with Preview.

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