IOS and other mobile devices can't correctly view our PDFs

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I got a call today that our PDFs are blank on iPhones (IOS 7.1.1) and Samsung Note 4s. They display fine on desktop and on my Samsung Galaxy S4.

I tried it on an iPad and they’re right: IOS devices can’t see (filled-in) merge fields at all.

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This was the fix.

var doc = new Aspose.Pdf.Document(mem);
doc.Flatten();
doc.Save();
mem.Position = 0;

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Is this in a code review for canonical? Should it be?

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The downside to using this method is that the fields are not editable after you flatten. So, you couldn’t fill out a form with guessed values and have a user open it and correct or fill out the rest. Perhaps it should be a boolean with a comment explaining when it’s important.

It’s not pushed to Canonical: was waiting for this discussion.