IOS 8, Safari and pdf hyperlinks

Hello: I'm sure this is a bug, so I have reported it in "feedback." Unfortunately I cannot access the bug reporting option since I am not a developer. However, this is my frustrating observation (since my entire website depends on hyperlinks in pdfs):
clickable hyperlinks do not work in Safari on pdfs  IOS 8. The links work using Chrome, they work from the public folder I have in DropBox, so I have determined it is a Safari issue.  This is the page I used to test:
http://www.rightbrainforhire.me/shelter-pet-gallery-aug-2014.pdf
Has anyone else seen this? Or is it still too early to tell...
Thanks so much,
Heidi
And why is there no community for IOS 8?!
rightbrainforhire.me

Hi,
  Too late to reply you :-(.
  Yes, install the Chrome browser and access the PDF link. Our users are not happy with the Chrome idea because they were used to Safari all along. To be frank Chrome browser is performing well these days. We are evaluating and trying to implement HTML5 based solution from Mozilla PDF.js. It is a waste of time and resource due to this small silly, frustrating issue.
  No idea when does this get resolved because there are no other solid solution that runs PDF within the browser. More over, IOS Safari does not allows to configure or install other PDF reader plugins to run as part of the browser otherwise alternatives like Adobe reader could be used.

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