Cannot see data or enter data in pdf forms

I am an elementary school teacher, and use an application to maintain student information. I am able to navigate thru the app to select various student data, but when I click to display a students information, a blank PDF form is displayed. Borders and grids display, but no data is displayed, and I cannot enter any data. The IT help desk suggested uninstalling the old Adobe Reader, and replacing with 9.4.1, but this did not help.

It's really hard to say what's going on without knowing more about the system. It's possible that the program is generating an FDF (Forms Data Format) file and launches it, causing the PDF to load and populate with the data in the FDF. Folks have reported that recent changes to Reader have broken this type of thing. So you may need to go back to an even earlier version, such as 9.2 or 9.3, or somehow contact the developers of the application for help.
Is this something that happens in a web browser?

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Somewhere at the beginning of your form, let the users know they must use Adobe's free Reader or one of their commercial products: Acrobat Standard (for education) or Acrobat Pro to complete the form. That, or just convert it to a web form, with instructions for them to print each page as they move along.
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Hi,
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