Populating PDF Government Forms

I'm trying to determine the best way to populate pre-designed government forms with BI Publisher. These forms do not have any existing markups and therefore I need to add the markup to the pdf in order to map it back to my data source. I haven't found a good way within Adobe 8 to add these markups. Alternatively, I've tried to convert the pdf to an rtf in order to use the MSWord add in. However, converting the pdf to an rtf loses the line formatting on the original pdf. Does anyone have any ideas or best practices for dealing with existing government pdf forms?

You need to select tools>forms>text field tool.
For the details of what needs to be entered, refer to the XML publisher report designers Guide. It contains basic information on how to create the fields for reporting. I would recommend giving fields the same name as in the XML, as it is likely to be easier to manage than if you have to use the mapping capability.
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