InDesign CS6 Forms Question

Wondering if any of you out there have been using the new forms options in InDesign CS6. I have been working on some forms and created a bunch of text fields for people to fill in. What I discovered was that when I exported and tried to put text in the fields in Adobe Acrobat Reader, it wouldn't save the form (it will let you print but not save). The filled out form can be saved in the full version of Adobe Acrobat, but with Reader I am having difficulties. On Adobe's website, they say that filling in fields and saving is possible in Reader, the document just needs to be "rights enabled". I am having a difficult time figuring out how to export my PDF from InDesign CS6 so that it is rights enabled. Has anyone run into this before? How do I remedy this?

I think that you can reasonably assume a 64-bit future for InDesign, but not as an InDesign 8 (CS6) update. For MacOS, transition to Cocoa from Carbon was necessary for this to occur.
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          - Dov

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