I have a set of forms in Acrobat that I have to reapply to new pdfs on a regular basis. Some are portrait forms and some are landscape. The initial forms are created in InDesign, which I edit as necessary and export to PDF. Then I copy the form fields from a previous version of the form onto the new PDF generated from ID. Prior to CS5, I had to create my forms in separate files based on their orientation, but now that CS5 supports rotating pages, I've created all the forms in a single ID file and exported them to PDF to split up in Acrobat, rotating the pages to their proper orientation within each app as necessary.
However, I've run into a problem. Copying the form fields from my original landscape forms into the new rotated page forms doesn't work. The field boxes are turned on end at 90 degrees. I can't find any easy way to rotate the group of fields so that they are properly oriented on the page. I really don't want to have to redo all these forms either in ID or in Acrobat. Am I missing something obvious or does it just not work?
What I find really strange is that Acrobat doesn't appear to hold onto the original orientation when you rotate a page, like ID does, but yet, when you copy form fields onto a page that has been rotated, it seems to be seeing the page's original orientation rather than it's current one.