David Samuel Barr wrote:

These forms are supposed to be a printable paper alternative to the
preferred (and in many cases mandatory) e-file. You are not expected
to send a pdf file to the state; they have nowhere for you to e-mail
it to (or to otherwise communicate with them in that manner). You
are supposed to type in the blanks, print out the completed form and
mail it in, and it shouldn't be so hard to do so.

Until last year, the state used standard fill-in pdf forms; you just
opened the form, typed in the available fields with your own
numbers/text, and printed the results. Last year, they modified
several of the primary forms to generate 2D barcodes based on the
field entries to expedite the scanning and processing thereof; the
new forms also compute totals where needed and, somewhat
problematically, calculate the tax due and the amount to be paid or
refunded. (The problem, I found, is that often the computed taxes do
not match those in the tax tables in the published instruction book
for the income amount.)

So this PDF is unusable unless the PDF viewer's Javascript is enabled.
Oh joy. Leave it to a stupid gov't boob to require a less-secure PDF
document to use it.

When you open a 2D file (I use Adobe Reader on various machines
running XP, Vista, and 8.1, with no problems), it first displays an
instruction sheet; when you click anywhere on the sheet it goes away
and presents the rest of the form. The green PRINT button is clearly
visible in the upper-left corner of the first page, next to a blue
LINKS button and opposite a red RESET one.

Those buttons are NOT present when viewing their .pdf in PDF-xchange
Editor. Apparently those buttons are not present in other *non*-Adobe
PDF viewers, too, from the responses by others. Must be an Adobe Reader
specific function. When I view that .pdf in PDF-xchange Editor, and
even when if I enable Javascript in that PDF viewer, the "first page" is
says "WARNING: PLEASE USE A DIFFERENT PDF VIEWER" (in red on yellow) and
then in black-on-yellow text tells you to use the Adobe Reader.

When you have completed the form (occasionally being guided or
corrected in your entries if needed), you need to use the PRINT
button to print it. The Reader's Print and Print Preview functions
will not work; while the print menu will pop up, the preview window
will just display an order to use the button instead and that's all
the menu will print, followed by blanks for any additional pages in
the form.

Without Javascript (a security vulnerability) enabled in the PDF viewer,
those buttons are absent. Without using Adobe Reader, those buttons are
absent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2YZnTL596Q
"How about the [CO2] scrubbers on the command module?"
"It takes square cartridges. The one on the LEM are round."
"[Sarcastically] Tell me this isn't a government operation."

The 10 Stupid Things the U.S. Government Spends Money On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb8kQRu-YkA

25 Craziest Things the U.S. Government Spends Money On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmDp8DyasbE