Nowadays almost all popular PDF readers can fill in PDF forms: Evince, Okular, and so on.

Heck, you can even create PDF forms entirely with Free Software, using LibreOffice / OpenOffice.

And don't forget PDF.JS of Firefox, which enables you to view and edit most PDF forms directly in your browser. However, it still has issues with some PDF documents, so I prefer Evince and Okular.

The still-common advice to install Adobe Acrobat Reader is outdated! And it has been outdated for years. In fact, some time ago the FSFE started a (still successful) campaign to convince public entities to no longer tell people to download Acrobat whenever they offer a PDF file. With public entities you can argue that they advertise Adobe without getting paid for that, that they ignore the fact that PDF is an Open Standard, and that they put the plethora of good PDF readers into disadvantage. Instead, most of these public entities now point to a community-driven overview of Free Software PDF readers:

https://pdfreaders.org/pdfreaders.en.html

But as mentioned before: As a Linux you don't need to worry about that, you almost certainly have already installed a good, free PDF viewer in the default installation.

Google Chrome added that feature at some point recently. You can fill in forms you open through it. And it's a very good experience.

Chromium possibly does it do, have not tested tho.

I can confirm that it works on Chromium with this test file: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/feature-deta...

You can install adobe reader on Linux. On Ubuntu it's acroread from package adobereader-enu.

Although sometimes you can use Chrome (or evince, or okular), occasionally Adobe Reader is the only one that can fill forms properly.

But Adobe does not officially support Linux any more so you won't get updates.

I've had some success with running current Adobe Reader in wine but trying to print makes the program crash, so there you have it.

To be honest I don't remember the last time I filled out a PDF form. Every form I've had to work with in the last 5 years was either fully online (docusign) or required me to print it out and sign it.

Atril works well.

Atril is what Evince used to be before it regressed in usability.

what you like about atril over evince? it looks similar but with slightly less features and not any greater speed at loading PDFs?

Basically atril is evince minus the Gnomish UI, which a lot of people hate.

Foxit PDF Reader is available on linux, some cool features including form filling I think

uPdf is nice. Linux actually has a whole ton of pdf manipulators which I find a lot easier to use for most common tasks then Adobe (or which actually do things you can't do with reader).

I always liked Okular, but it seems external PDF readers are less and less necessary for simple work. Really only needed for reading lengthy documents now (50+ pgs.).

I honestly can't remember the last time I have had to do that. One idea would be to try installing Adobe via wine if you can't find a native program.

I fill in tax forms with adobe 9, if no that I think the new acrobat compatibles for Linux are getting better at forms now

Last time i did that about 6 years ago i opened it with gimp and drew over it

Okular

Okular is by far the best PDF app on any platform. It supports annotations, margin trimming, overriding colors and other accessibility options. For heavy PDF users, Okular alone is worth the switch to Linux and KDE.

Master PDF Editor or Chromium

evince. It is the default PDF viewer in gnome, I think.

qpdfview