Blurred Text in PDF Form

Created a form by converting a pre-existing PDF to a form-fillable one using Acrobat Pro.
The form-fillable PDF was created fine.
In editing the form, I changed the text fields to allow multiple lines of text.
Saved the form as a new PDF filename
When filling out the form using Reader, most fields allow for text wrapping to multiple lines.
At the bottom of the form, several fields allow text entry, but then blur the text both when filling the fields, when printing, and after saving under a new file name.
Ideas, suggestions, etc.?

Now that I said that, I should revise it to "...it most likely would have happened when you edited the field..." as I recall working on a form sent to me by someone else who had added field using the Form Wizard, and there were duplicated fields, so I suppose it is possible that Acrobat automatically added them.

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    lfl_flag          TYPE c,
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    lv_left_i         TYPE i,
    tv_left_i         TYPE i,
    lv_curr_i         TYPE i.
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