Noob needs help - PDF Fails to display - Only black screen

Question

Hi,
I am new to FB. I was tasked with finishing up an desktop application that someone else started. They were using FB 3.
I got the trial of FB 4.5 and imported the project. Then started the process of learning FB. I am working on a Mac.
I got the UI fixed and a few bugs. Then exported a release build. Ran it on windows all seemed fine except for display a few PDFs.
The PDFs all display fine on my Mac, just not on Windows. I searched all over for some clue as to what is happening. I even tried installing the latest Adobe Reader, still no change,
The code that displays the PDFs couldn't be more simple:
<mx:HTML x="10" y="10" width="100%" height="100%" location="appen/c5awwa.pdf" borderStyle="none"/>
The Parent is:
<mx:Canvas label="AWWA Standard" width="100%" height="100%" borderStyle="none">
And whos parent is:
<mx:TabNavigator width="100%" height="100%" borderStyle="none">
The top level, 2nd line in files is:
<mx:Canvas xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"  width="100%" height="100%"   xmlns:local="*">
So the order is:
<mx:Canvas xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"  width="100%" height="100%"   xmlns:local="*">    
     <mx:TabNavigator width="100%" height="100%" borderStyle="none">
          <mx:Canvas label="AWWA Standard" width="100%" height="100%" borderStyle="none">
               <mx:HTML x="10" y="10" width="100%" height="100%" location="appen/c5awwa.pdf" borderStyle="none"/>
I did notice that the canvas should not be used in favor of a BorderContainer or a Group.
Since being totally new to this, I figured I'd get it working before I tried to chage the containers. I looked at doing that but didn't have the time to figure it out as I have a deadline, the 14th.
We plan on buying this as we want to turn the app into a mobile app also.
If it means anything her is the apps declaration (not sure that's what its called, the 1st line:
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
                                                                                                                        xmlns:local="*"
                                                                                                                        width="916" height="850"
                                                                                                                        backgroundColor="#EAEEF1" borderColor="#FDFDFD"
                                                                                                                        creationComplete="init()" horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off" layout="absolute"
                                                                                                                        >
If anybode has a clue, please point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

I don't have any problem displaying those PDF files with Safari on either my iPad Air 2 or iPhone 5 which are both on iOS 8.1.2.
Perhaps the problem is dependent on whatever else you are doing in the browser.