Google Docs PDF Viewer Fails to Render Edited PDFs on iPad
A user reports that after editing a PDF in Google Docs/Drive, the built-in PDF viewer on iPad can no longer display the edited content correctly, forcing them to switch away from Drive as their default PDF reader. The breakage undermines a core cross-device editing workflow.
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