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Are there not any alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader on macOS for editing fields and other use cases listed in the other comments?

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Apple's Preview does a pretty good job with generic pdf forms. Unfortunately, Adobe has created multiple types of pdf forms using different technologies and very complex specs. Apple does not support all of these. (You can also find many cases of PDF forms using Adobe tools that do not round trip between platforms).

PDF Export does a good job of filing in the gaps.

https://pdfexpert.com

Not just complex specs. Some of them are proprietary.

There's some non-free options:

Editing/Form Fill/etc: Nitro[1]

Signing: Nitro[1], HelloSign[2], airSlate[3], Smallpdf[4] (limited functionality)

[1] https://www.gonitro.com

[2] https://www.hellosign.com

[3] https://www.airslate.com

[4] https://smallpdf.com

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