Can the Review Widget be reformatted?

I am having a hard time making a review widget fit on my page. I can seem to reduce the white space around my three possible answers? Also, would rather have all three on one line to run across the bottom of the page, rather than stacked. Anyone know if this is possible?

KT
This is a IBA community site, so I try to find solutions and workarounds that work in IBA.
Sure there are going to be things that can't be done in IBA and are best done with an iPad App.
But IBA is a lot easer then programing an iPad App and I think a lot of the people on this site can't program an iPad App (including me)
If something can't be done in iBA that i know of, that's what I say. I figure If someone can program iPad Apps then they probably already know if that is the better route to go.
I really don't think using Keynote or html widgets is band-aiding IBA.
If you can make a quiz/review in Keynote that works better for your needs then the review widget, use it.
To be honest, for what I think joeandginny1 need, I think this is a workable solution and there is no need to use something besides IBA.
Also, if they don't want to use Keynote, another solution could be to run the review widget full screen only, and have the hot spot to launch the full screen review along the bottom of the page (on top of a text box with the question etc.)

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1) Are you able to Publish Comments in the review?
2) Is there any internet traffic monitoring tool running on your machine?
3) Close Acrobat and then try killing the AdobeCollabSync.exe from task manager. Now open the review file again and try to sync the comments. Does this work?
4) Try downloading a fresh copy of this file from Acrobat.com server and replacing your local copy with it.
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