Is there any way to control which form of black is used in Acrobat forms?

I have a govt client that wants to create an Acrobat form (either through
LiveCycle or with Pro 8's form tools). The form will be filled out by
experts from various countries in their native language, and the resulting
press-quality PDF then printed via conventional offset printing.

The problem is that the form field text is RGB black (0 R, 0 G, 0 B), which
converts to a "built black", something like 63% C, 52% M, 50% Y, 95% K.

At body text sizes, this is nearly impossible to print via offset printing
because you end up with yellow, cyan, or magenta halos around the text as if
it's out of register. End result: illegible text.

This is also a problem when Press-quality PDFs are made from Office
documents. Their RGB blacks convert to CMYK built blacks rather than 100%
black.

This is driving my government clients crazy! Any ideas?

--Bevi Chagnon
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