Interactive PDF - Offset Printing

Hi all,
I'm hoping someone can advise me on the best way to set up an Interactive PDF for offset printing? The underlying PDF is a high res PDF with bleed and trims. However, I'm not sure what happens with the form fields. Any thoughts?
Mac 10.6.7
InDesign CS5
Acrobat Pro 9.4.4
Cheers,
Tricia

Form fields are a tricky one, as it depends on where you're ripping the separations. If you print to separations from Acrobat, the data in printable form fields will appear on the plates as part of the page content. However most hardware RIPs will either throw an error, or ignore form fields, buttons, etc. and just print the page content. in the PDF specification form fields, buttons and annotations are always RGB, so you can't for example have a text field with "cyan" text, it'll be the multi-plate equivalent shade of "blue". As a special case, in Acrobat the default black text fields are separated to a single plate (K) even though on screen they're RGB 0,0,0.
It's also important to make sure your underlying PDF is in the correct color space. Exporting to "PDF (Interactive)" from InDesign means you'll convert everything to DeviceRGB, but for offset you want to keep everything in (or convert to) CMYK, with or without spots, and presumably want to embed profile information too. You only have access to the "output" controls when you export to "PDF (Print)" - using that route you can still export your form fields and multimedia, but they'll remain in RGB no matter what you do.

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