How to edit PDF's in Preview?

Heya - I was sent a form in PDF format that I need to fill out but I'm not sure how I can edit it and save my changes, can anyone tell me?
And does Preview let me add new fields to an existing form? Like say it's a document that was scanned and visually has the fields but no digitally?
Thanks!

Preview.app is just that - a viewer. It is not an editor but does have some very limited editing capabilities. Some pdf forms with fill-in spaces will work with Preview and some can be saved with the changes, others not. That depends upon the way the form was written, and has nothing to do with Preview.
If you need to actually edit a pdf, then you need a pdf edtior. I use GhostScript, which is free and quite powerful.
Here is their main site
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/?ref=darwinports.com
and for Macs, here
http://ghostscript.darwinports.com/
There may be others that are free and there are many commercial ones that are not.
Adobe Acrobat, one of the standard editors is not free
http://guide.apple.com/action.lasso?-database=macosguide&-layout=cgi_detail&-res ponse=/ussearch/detail.html&prodkey=10633&-search

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http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-acrobat-xi/editing-a-pdf-in-adobe-acrobat-xi/
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