Reading Acrobat forms on iPad

We use a fillable form created in Acrobat and readable by Reader for billing issues. On the iPad, the forms are blank when returned. Is there a way to have the data show up?

Your depending upon Safari's built in PDF reader. Since version 9.2 Acrobat no long includes a a PDF viewer since it was only designed  to work with Safari anyway. And now that Full size Safari reads PDF natively I guess Adobe has decided to leave it off. The one thing the Acrobat version does allow is for filling out forms. You'll have to find a Safari extension or Plugin designed for ipad to work with with iPad's version of Safari.  I just tried Safari with a Form I have That uses javascript for caluculations and they don't work. They do show up but don't work. Now fields that use such things as text they show fine.

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