Buttons/Links in PDFs on iPad

I'm putting together a series of documents to be distributed and read on iPads at a meeting using Acrobat X. I've been placing buttons on each page saying "return to page 1" but when I transfer them to an iPad and use iBooks the buttons don't appear.
So, two questions:
1) Will the buttons just not appear at all, as in does the iPad not support that kind of function on PDFs
2) If there is an app out there that will support these functions, what is it?
I've tried looking elsewhere to find this answer but haven't. Apologies if I've missed something obvious.

I did some experimenting with the User Guide for the iPad, which is a pdf. It has hyperlinks in the Table of Contents. When I Get Info on the Guide on my Mac, it says that it is an Adobe InDesign document. (Interesting that Apple did not use Preview or Pages to create it!)
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipad_2_user_guide.pdf
I downloaded it with Safari on the iPad. In Safari the links in the doc do not function. I tapped the page and chose to open it in iBooks and the links work fine. I tapped the page and opened it in GoodReader, which is a Swiss-Army-Knife, great-for-everything, iOS app, and the links worked fine. I tapped the page again and opened it in FileApp and the links did not function.
It seems that links work depending on the iOS app that opens the doc, but beyond that I cannot shed light on why a pdf with links made with InDesign function, but yours made with Acrobat do not.
I hope this is helpful.

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