Is there a way to open .pdf documents into a program in which they can be edited, as in, not Preview?

I Adobe Professional 8.0 and edit .pdfs in that.

Adobe Reader should be able to do that. It’s a free download. Fill-in-the-blanks functionality is built into the PDF. You’re not actually editing the PDF, you’re just filling in fields, so you don’t need the full reader.

If I’m wrong, then Adobe Acrobat Pro might do the job, but I don’t imagine that your application requires you to purchase Acrobat.

There is a program called desktop unPDF that reformats PDFs so they can be edited in MS Word. I bought it awhile back and not sure of the price but you can probably find it at Version Tracker or Mac Update (those are both software resellers online).

May i ask why you don’t want to use preview?

You can use Adobe reader for that.

It’s an application for a job that I need to edit and fill in information, which preview won’t let me do.

That’s odd. i filled out a pdf in preview last week…
Well, it’s adobe for what preview can’t do.

That you should be able to fill out online unless the document is not created correctly. It may not be you. Are you downloading it to your desktop, and filing it out. Or are you filling it out with the website open, and then saving it to the desktop to print? Do you want to post the link to the application and see if anyone else has problems?

@TitsMcGhee, here’s what Adobe has to say about determining if you can fill a .pdf form. The information is about half way down the page, Determining whether a form can be filled in on screen.