Forms in Acrobat PDF Textfield

I need to create a text field that flows from one page to another. (ie. someone is copying text from a word doc into a text filed on a form and the text is long enough to fill mulitple pages. It must be printable not hidden by a scrll bar...)
Any suggestions on a script or feature that is not obvious...at least to me...
Thanks

I had a potential customer discover this same issue recently and with much embarrassment to me.  I kept telling him how great the advanced PDF was and all he had to do was click my logo and the form could be sent to me effortlessly.   
I thought I had tested the PDF within Preview, but I guess I overlooked that the reply function wasn't working.  Anyway, I've been around the software block enough to expect problems... But this issue IMO is not a small thing.
I wish companies would realize the severe pitfalls of being too protective of proprietary functionality within their products.  Because in the end, consumer confusion and frustration means we all loose.
So I'm supposed to have a disclaimer beside my PDF link on my site which says something like... "Hey this is an advanced PDF form, but it won't work with..."
Please forgive the rant if there's any update or fix I'm overlooking.
Will

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