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Adobe Acrobat and other paid PDF programs seem to have cornered the market on making form fields in pdfs... FDF

There looks like there might be a free path, but it looks a little iffy.

https://www.extractpdf.com/

https://fontforge.org/en-US/

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/02/how-to-create-fillable-pdf-forms-with.html

Gotchas

So if you already have the adobe fonts on your machine, then it is probably a non-issue.

Otherwise, if you import the extracted fonts into fontforge, you find they are subsets of the whole font with weird name prefixes.

Still looking into it...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/fonts-seem-to-install-but-don-t/m-p/3925595/page/2#M12684

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