iPad Email Attachments showing up as empty/missing icon question mark

I had a product developer mention that the iPad does not show preview images above a certain dimension, so the press and hold was required.

I'm curious to know if when you press and hold the "box with question mark" you get the "open in..." option?

I'm having the same problem using the iPad app "pages" an apple developed app, and I can't seem to send a PDF without getting the blue ? appearing half the time. It seems to be random and most definitely a major bug.

Quite embarrassing for apple really. They tout this new fan dangled, most powerful word processing software developed for a tablet, oh except when you click on the share via email button, it will only work half the time, which obviously looks great for you when your clients keep receiving emails with no attachment.

I'm running 4.3.3 iPad 2

If anyone finds a work around I'd love to hear it. Currently I just send a bunch to my own address, then when one works I forward the attachment via my MacBook. Utterly ******** I know, but I like the PDF layout Pages makes...

R ETarded is not a swear word apple FYI

I found the answer to the pdf ? icon issue!!

I had the same problem, could not view pdfs and larger attachments on the IPAD 1 in email and getting a ? icon (but could see the attachment of the same email on my iphone 3gs).

I discovered if you press and hold the ? icon a pop up says 'quick view', then select 'quick view' up pops the pdf/large file in all its glory!

This was driving me nuts for ages, trawling the internet for answers, I was thinking the ipad was no good as a business tool, hope this helps you folks!

Had the same problem on ipad and iphone and out of the blue I thought it might have something to do with how the file is saved as a pdf. When I originally created the pdf file it saved it without the .pdf in the file name, but it was a pdf file. When I created a new pdf file, adding .pdf to the file name, and sent it as attachments, mail recognised and opend it in both ipad and iphone.

I have been having the same problem for ages, since I bought my iPad, and I was one of the first, I've always been diligent with it and updated always the OS as soon as it comes out, I'm careful with the apps that I download, and I use the iPad all the time. But this is really starting to get annoying. It is so random that it is very difficult to determine what causes it, but it generally does not matter what the attachment is, it can be a PDF, word document or ppt. It also seems that if I send an attachment from my iPad tie rearly gets through. I really hope that apple sort this out.

Similiar problem.

A PDF received in my gmail account shows up fine in a web browser but is not shown at all on my iPhone, iPad or OSX Mail.App or OSX Thunderbird. It appears to be for certain types of PDF's --- this one is from a mobile phone company with my monthly bill and is password protected.

The ones that I can view are not password protected.

All devices are updated to OSX 10.7 and iOS5.0.1.

Why are there so many people with the same problem and no resolution????

I used to be able to view PDFs on my iphone and ipad, but no more. It has been a while since I've had to view a PDF from my email, so I am not sure when the problem started. Maybe with the upgrade to the new OS? But then again these postings about problems opening & viewing PDFs have been going on for years. If anyone fineds a solution (APPLE?) please let us know...and fix it with the next OS update ASAP.

P.S. All of the PDF attachemtns show up as files winmail.dat. When I try to open it says Mail Cannot Open This Attachment. I have Load Remote Images "on" in my mail settings.....

Same issue....PDF's are not showing up on my work account (MS Exchange), which is a HUGE problem seeing I work off my phone after hours. I even went out to Safari, logged onto our web exchange account and the PDF's are still a no show. Any suggestions/resolutions would be great!

I want to bump this thread, as I am STILL having the above mentioned problems, very frustrating.

I should mention that when I walk away from the wifi, the images will show up. Hopefully, this will help some of you, but I have no explanation for this.

I still see this problem. I notice it happens when emailing my pdf using exchange server. Not an issue with G-Mail

I have upgraded (????) to ios6 and now cannot open email PDF attachments. The first time this happened I did a full restore of my ipad via iTunes backup and it solved the problem.

However it has happened again and this time a restore hasn't helped.

Presumably Apple are aware of this problem but don't seem to be terribly interested in solving it.

Maybe the company should be rebranded Ostrich!