Here is how you can Fill a PDF on Windows for Free
As the world moves more and more towards a digitization, PDFs have become the gold standards of storing and moving around documentation.
What is a PDF?
According to Wikipedia, Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
Thanks to its focus on independence of software/hardware, PDFs can be shared everywhere without worrying about losing or modifying any information. This is what makes them so useful and abundant. The pandemic accelerated the move to digital documents, increasing the popularity of PDFs tenfolds as compared to traditional physical documents.
In this guide, we will cover some of the ways you can fill a PDF document to fill information, like adding text or adding your signature and more.
X Ways You Can Fill a PDF
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe, being the inventor of the PDF format, has its own suite of applications under the “Adobe Acrobat” family, which allow you to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format files. If you want to edit or fill in a PDF document, you can use Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The free version allows you to print, sign and annotate PDFs, while you can use the Pro version for the free features, plus create, protect, convert and edit PDFs as well.
Adobe Acrobat Online
Adobe recently introduced an online, simplified version of its Acrobat software, which allows you to use some of its features as a web application. It is free and allows you to perform a lot of the basic PDF tasks right from your browser, without having to download anything.
Chrome
Google has made Chrome so powerful and laden with features, that it even turned the browser into its own Operating System (Chrome OS). Recently, it also added the ability to fill in text boxes and information in PDFs right from your browser. Here’s how you can do it,
- Download Google Chrome.
- Right-click on the PDF you want to fill and select, Open with and select Chrome.
That’s it. Now you can fill in the information and click on the Download icon at the top-right to save the PDF with your added information.
