Lines Running Together When Editing Form PDFs

I created a form/fillable PDF in Acrobat XI Pro.  I want to use it on an iPad app called PDF Expert, where I can fill in the fields and save it.  When I do so and have the form sync back to my MacBook and open it, the lines of text in a fillable text box run together.  How can I prevent this from happening?
Also, when I try to save my form in Acrobat, and go to Save As Other... -> Reader Extended PDF...  the options are all grayed out. Any reason for for this?
Thanks!

The form is opened the first time with the field set to 1.  Then I have a rule set up that when the person fills out the form and a field is filled in, it sets the field to 2.  The intent is to have the form open all subsequent times in the
second view.  I don't know if that's the best way to go about doing that, but that's the best way we could come up with.
Do the Form Load rules only run once?

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