Trouble with fill-in PDF

We are working on creating a fill-in PDF for clients. I've got the form completed, and have sent it to myself (& accessed it using my laptop, a PC) and was able to input my answers & send it back, no problem. But when the boss did the same thing, filled it out on her own computer (a Mac) and sent it back, I am only able to see her answers if I click on the text box following the question. And when I try printing it, I get a blank form (only prints our form's questions, not her answers). What's going on?? Is it a Mac thing?

This is due to your boss being on a Mac and using Mac Preview to fill out the form rather than Adobe Reader (or Acrobat).
Preview will break fillable forms every time and that is the number one symptom. You can search the forum if you want. There have been many threads on this.

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