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I've created a form that my staff use to send quotes to our customers.
The form is sent via email using the submit a form button as 'PDF The complete document'.
I spent several days testing the form to ensure that everything worked correctly and as far as I could tell everything seemed fine.
Unfortuntately, several of our customers who own iPhones have informed us that the form arrives blank. None of the fields are showing any data or information that my staff filled in.
I've read several posts online and they all suggest this is to do with the version of Adobe that is pre-installed on iOS devices. If Adobe Reader is downloaded on the iPhone it should read the form properly.
Is there any way around this? Ideally I don't want my customers to have to download something before they can read our quote.
Also several of the text fields have javascript attached to them which I would like to keep, such as the 'Link' text field (it has a hyperlink javascript attached). I considered sending the quotes as a .jpg file instead but this would mean losing these features which took so long to build into the quote.
I've attached a sample version of my form in case it helps.
Sample
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Sabri

I'd suggested flattening the form fields, which converts them to regular page contents. There won't be any interactive fields after you do this though. It is possible to flattten just certain fields so that your script would still work if the form is viewed in a compatible PDF viewer, but this would require a custom script.
Here's a link to a free JavaScript-based tool that you can use to flatten the fields: http://www.uvsar.com/projects/acrobat/flattener/
It could be customized to exclude certain fields.

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