Text in form field, it's there, oh now it's not.

I created an electronic copy of a form that contains 84 fields. It has worked quite well for some time. I created it in Adobe X Pro and populate it on an iPad with the PDF Expert App as well as a PC/WIN7 using Acrobat. Recently I turned in some work and a couple of the fields were not visible until they were clicked on. Click another field and the previous field goes blank. I deleted the fields and created new ones and it seems to be remedied. Why do I have to do this and trust that it will not happen again?

This type of thing can happen when the document is saved with the Preview application on the Mac, but it can be due to other things as well. These other things have been difficult for me to determine, but to fix it (assuming the form is not otherwise corrupted as it can be when saved with Preview) you can export the form data to an FDF file and then re-import it into the form. You'll need Acrobat for this. To fix with either Reader 11 (which can save) or Acrobat you can use the script that's available here: http://kb2.adobe.com/community/publishing/885/cpsid_88564.html

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