Completed forms appearing blank

I created a fillable form using Adobe Acrobat X Pro, Version 10.0.1. Users download the online form from a web page (often using the Reader app on the iPad) and e-mail it to me. They are advised to e-mail the "flattened" version of the forms, but I am not certain that this always happens.
Sometimes I open the form using Adobe Acrobat X Pro on my PC, and it appears blank. I have been informed by several users that other e-mail recipients can see the filled data without any problem.
Today, I received a filled version of the form, and all data was visible. I forwarded the message and attachment to another person, but she received a blank copy.
Does anyone have ideas as to what the issue might be?

It's hard to say for sure without being able to inspect the document? It would also help to know exactly what PDF viewer is being used by everyone, particularly the last person you mentioned. Can you post a sample form somewhere that appears blank to you, and one that you can see is filled-in but appears blank to others?
When you open a form and it appears to be blank, what happens when you click into the text fields? A problem related to how Preview on the Mac corrupts PDF forms will result in the text being shown when a filled-in field has the focus.

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Most likely the form was opened and save with the Preview application on the Mac, which has lousy support for PDF forms. It actually corrupts them in a number of ways when it saves them. Since you have Acrobat, you can export the form data to an FDF file and import it into a blank form and all will no OK.

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i have a problem regarding showing parameter form that made by report developer when i call the report from my form
first i use winXP sp3, database 10g ,developer suite 10g
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the report run perfectly from report builder and the parameter form appears but when i call the report from the form the report appears without parameter form screen and this make report empty
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