My iPhone is trying to open PDF Mail attachments with tiff viewer

I receive my faxes via email. They are delivered as PDF files. Sometimes when I try to open them on my iPhone, it says that it cannot open the tiff file. The attachment is clearly named with a .pdf file extension, but the iPhone still tries to open it as a tiff. Other PDFs open fine, but it treats these as if they are tiff files.

George is correct. XFA forms (which the mobile Reader does not support) are often built with a generic error (like the one described) page that displays for Readers that do not support these document types.

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