PDF Form in Exchange ok, on iPhone empty

We create a PDF Form for customers. The problem is, that the form is filled out correctly in Outlook 2010. But on the iPhone, you see only an empty form.

In case anyone else has this problem, I fixed it...
Situation: I made the fillable form with an existing PDF document, I did not start from scratch.
Solution: I saved the original PDF as a Word document, and then turned on the "paragraph marking" tool in Word.  This revealed that there was a text box hidden at the bottom of the document.  Once I removed the text box, I re-saved the document as a PDF and recreated the form again.  It was kind of a pain, but it solved the problem!

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