A better way to make a pdf form?

Hi,
I've got a form that I use. Here is my process:
Created form layout in InDesign, export to PDF, in PDF create form fields that are clickable, check boxes.
Is there a way to give those check boxs in InDesign som sort of script or name that will get exported with the PDF so that I can skip doing it in Acrobat?
Basically, I want to tag my check boxes in InDesign so that when they export to PDF they are live check boxs, selectable in Acrobat.  Can it be done?
Thanks,
Stan

Welcome to Unix. 
The key part of that shell script code is the test for the existence of the mount point (if [ -e /Volumes/dbamp ]), followed by a conditional block that — in the "else" section involved when the mount point wasn't found — creates it, and then mounts an AFP file system on that mount point.  Most of the rest of the baggage in that script is used to get the mysqldump database dumps over onto the target disk, once it's been mounted.
Here's a very quick overview of the basics of scripting , Apple's introduction to the command line manual, there's a generic bash intro (which is good, but doesn't line up exactly with how bash is implemented on OS X) and O'Reilly has some reasonable books on bash and bash scripting.  Once you know and are comfortable with the basics, there are advanced bash guides available.

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