PDF Generation Question

Hi, I have Acrobat 8 profressional. I currently have a pdf (landscape) being populated with data. It is a government form so we started with the actual form and added the formfields and populate them with cfpdf... but now I need to make a printable for users that want to print on the actual forms. So I would just like to copy all the formfields and paste them into a new blank form. But I can't figure out how to create a landscape pdf document! I've read that there's a "Rotate" button but I can't find it. I also tried to remove the background from our existing pdf. I went under Document > Background > Remove and removed the background, but nothing happens. I still see all the government form fields and text.
What is the best course of action for the situation? I can't believe I can't figure it out. Acrobat just doesn't seem as intuitive as many technologies. Like I created a blank image and converted it to a pdf, but I wasn't able to go into "Edit" mode (Forms > Edit Form In Acrobat).
Thanks in advance for any guidance.
Greg

The PDF content, upon which you placed your form fields is a scanned image of the form.
The image is content and not "background"; so, of course it cannot be removed by the add/replace/update/remove features associated with PDF "background".
Something to try.
Create a "test" copy of the PDF you now have.
Scan the new form (eMedNY-000103 (8/09)) into PDF.
Make a "test" copy of this PDF.
Open "test" PDF (-000101 form). Try Document > Replace Pages
Replace "-000101" test PDF page with "-000103" test PDF page.
As the form's authoring file is an MS Word file, perhaps you could cajole the NY State folks into making it available (?).
Or, a PDF of it...
Unless it is already available via the eMedNY Electronic Gateway/BBS?
fwiw -
Rotate: Document > Rotate Pages
Be well...

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