Acrobat forms corrupting

Having spent a long time designing the layout and fields for a school report form which was subsequently tested on both Mac and PCs, I have now discovered that the teachers are taking the pdf file to work on it at home and the problem specified below is what is happening when the file is being brought back into the school to print out:
'When I tried to open one report it looked fine on the screen til I clicked on one box- then the writing doubled in size. When I tried printing it I got an error message saying: 'Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the person who created the pdf document to correct the problem.'
Any suggestions would be very grateful. The form was designed on a Mac but is being filled in on PCs.

What products and versions are being used by those taking the forms home?
Anything other than Adobe Reader to Acrobat might be corrupting the forms.

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