maya said:Pages will EDIT PDF files since it will import them, and considering Pages is an editor it will write and re-write PDF files. That would explain why iWork is expensive since Apple is paying Adobe for this feature.
On their Pages webpage, Apple says "Pages supports industry-standard graphics formats -- GIF, JPG, TIFF, PDF and PSD -- and deftly handles documents created in AppleWorks, Microsoft Word and other word processing applications."
Listing PDF as a graphics format suggests to me that Pages wont open a PDF file as a text file but only as a graphic image. Also, they never mention being able to edit PDFs in their discussion about compatibility with text documents from other word processing applications.
It may not matter though because there might be another way to accomplish what I think Sethypoo wants to do.....and maybe Pages will be able to do the following.
In MS Word, a pdf version of a tax form can be placed in a document as a "picture" which is then formatted to be "behind text". Once that's done, when you type your new information, the text is placed in front of the "picture", in this case the tax form. The end result is that you have "filled in the blanks" in the form even though you don't actually edit the pdf.
haha......of course we don't know if Pages will do this.......guess we'll have to wait until somebody gets ahold of the program
