Viewing PDF on iPad/iPhone

Hello,
I work for a financial company and it seems that some of our user's were having trouble viewing a pdf document that contained editable text boxes. The layout of the form itself would show, but none of the text within the text boxes would appear. So I tested the pdf out on my phone as well and did the same exact thing (layout shows, but no text). So I downloaded the Adobe PDF reader and that did work with the phone. The only problem with that is is that the Reader app downloads a copy of the pdf to the iPhone/iPad and that's a very big "no-no" to our auditors. So I was wondering if you guys knew of any way to make those pdf's readable or if y'all might know of a pdf viewer app that will not download a copy of the pdf to the phone itself? Any help/suggestions would be greate appreciated.
Thank you!

If he can read the form when he selects Quicklook, that's a new one on me. That has never, ever worked for me. Form fields have never been visible as attachments in the built in Mail app on any iOS device that I have ever owned. he needs to download a real PDF reader app in order to view, edit, sign, etc. form fields. Tell him to download Adobe Reader which is free and it gives him all of that functionality. Other pdf apps will do the same things, but Adobe Reader is free.
it's tough to beat free and functional.

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Hey, I just ran across something that makes no since to me so maybe some of you have ran across it before.
My son-in-law just sent me a PDF document that opens and is filled out completely but on his iphone and ipad it shows up as a blank document
I resent him the form that I can read but when he opens it the form is blank. If he selects quick look the form fills out and can be view. I would believe it has to be a setting because the form can be viewed on both my iphone and my daughter's iphone, but not on his.
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If he can read the form when he selects Quicklook, that's a new one on me. That has never, ever worked for me. Form fields have never been visible as attachments in the built in Mail app on any iOS device that I have ever owned. he needs to download a real PDF reader app in order to view, edit, sign, etc. form fields. Tell him to download Adobe Reader which is free and it gives him all of that functionality. Other pdf apps will do the same things, but Adobe Reader is free.
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Hello,
I have a strange problem with some pdf download links on my iPad and iPhone
and hope that somebody here has gone through that before and give me a hint.
Problem description:
I have a problem when I try to dowload a pdf. If the pdf is linked with a normal
http-link, I have no problem opening it, it is shown in an extra tab in safari and
I can save it in iBooks. So far so good.
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What I can do, is download this pdf with Safari on OS X 10.10 and on Windows
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as PDF-viewers could change this behavior. Again no success. (I tested Acrobat
Reader and Amazon Kindle)
- After that I installed Google Chrome: Only a slight change happend, now I saw
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- Next I updated my iPhone 5 from iOS7 to iOS8.1.: No success.
- I was so desperate after that, that I even resetted my iPhone to factory-defaults,
completly erasing all content and settings. Again no success.
- After that I was running out of ideas.
Technical background:
- The pdf I'm trying to download contains confidental content so I unfortunately
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command-button instead of a normal link.
- The pdf contains no forms and other fancy stuff, just plain (ok, formatted) text
and some small icons.
- I can easily download and view other (static) pdfs from the same website.
- I have this problem on my iPhone 5 with iOS7 (latest version and iOS8.1 and
on my iPad2 with iOS7 (latest version).
- It works well on my MacBook with OS X 10.10. and on Windows and Android.
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- I think while searching for a solution I found a document saying something about
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