All pdf's imported are blank on the Ipad

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All pdf's imported are blank on the Ipad

I have an Iphone and an Ipad. The iphone displays all of my imported PDFs on Goodreader and any other application that I view them on.

However, no matter what I try, the Ipad displays them as blank pages. I tried multiple readers. I import them via URL for Goodreader and some of the other pdf applications. All the same result, a blank PDF. The same exact pdf's work without difficulty on my iphone 😟 please help this is so frustrating and the primary reason why I bought this device.

ipad, iPhone OS 3.1.2, Ipad

Posted on Jun 11, 2010 3:44 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 20, 2010 5:41 PM in response to hypo777

I have the exact same problem. I have PDFs on my Mac that display fine but when I try to view them on my iPad they're simply blank pages. I've tried Goodreader, Box.net, Dropbox, all with the same result.

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Answer 2

flatom

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Nov 14, 2012 6:41 PM in response to hypo777

I just experienced the problem of an iPad user being unable to view text entered in fields of a document I created with Acrobat Pro. I sent the file to my iPhone - same thing. Text fields were invsible.

I resolved it by opening the document in Acrobat Pro, going to the Document menu, and selecting Flatten Document. Bad-a-bing!

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dpgetman

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Aug 8, 2010 4:28 PM in response to hypo777

I had this issues as well. I resolved it by opening the PDF in Adobe Pro (but I believe you can also do this with Adobe Reader) on my macbook and saving it as a PDF/A. When I put the new PDF/A document on my iPad it opened up just fine.

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moyboy

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Nov 7, 2010 11:26 AM in response to dpgetman

I've tried all the suggestions so far and non of them worked: My mostly-text PDF still shows up as blank pages on my iPhone. But I finally got it working with the additional help from Acrobat Distiller. I still don't know what the conflicts might be but here are the steps:

Export the PDF (in my case 200 pages) in Acrobat Pro as a postscript file (File > Export > Postscript > Postscript) and you'll end up with a PS file. Now open Distiller and set the default settings to PDF/A-1b:2005 (RGB) and drop the PS file and let it produce an iPhone friendly PDF.

I'm using USB Disk for transfer to my iPhone so your results might vary.

Hope this helps!

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Answer 5

Mar 25, 2011 4:48 PM in response to hypo777

SOLUTION: You need to have a PDF Creator through your print options. The instructions below are my instructions for a PC using PDF Creator. The print to PDF on a MAC should do the same thing. Create and fill in your type-able fields PDF. Then go to File > Print > PDF Creator > SAVE AS then attach the PDF the PDF Creator made to your email and the iPhone will display your graphics and typed fields. If you do not have PDF Creator for PC installed on your computer, it is available for download and is free (I think).

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Answer 6

May 4, 2011 7:43 PM in response to mschuler

I recently received my iPad2 and discovered this pdf compatibility problem.

The GoodReader "solution"of re-saving with Preview works, but my gosh - a Google book download went from 9 MB to 81 MB, simply by re-saving in Preview. That's seriously crazy.

I'm reminded of the days when the Mac could not read MS Office's PC files correctly.

Jeez, PDF and jpg are *standards*, why not keep supporting them?

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Answer 7

May 5, 2011 7:20 PM in response to Al Cellier

Here is a sample pdf available on-line, that illustrates the issue:

example 1, Google book at (ALL between < and > )

< http://books.google.com/books/download/Neuveville_et_ses_habitants.pdf?id=u_suAA AAYAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U1N3lkqzebCR1bRh1cVpxBJsTeKMQ >

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Rob_W

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Nov 17, 2012 4:20 AM in response to hypo777

If you load the PDF in preview,

simply click cmd+P for print.

Then in the lower left hand corner you'll see a little button with "PDF" on it.

Click that PDF button and select "Mail PDF"

This will open the PDF in a new email.

Enter the recipient and send!

The attached PDF opens fine in iOS devices and will print fine from them also.

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Answer 9

big tim

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Feb 19, 2017 12:18 PM in response to hypo777

When I open a pdf with my iPad it is blank also, even though I could see it correctly on my Mac. When I select Print Preview the pdf is populated. My fix was to "Copy to PDF" and then opened with the PDF app and everything was right.

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