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December 16, 2024
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Corrupted form fields?

  • December 16, 2024
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I am working on a legacy (ca. 2016) PDF and attempting to tag and make it accessible. This PDF has a number of form fields, some of which have multiple annotations. The attached image shows a text field that has three duplicate annotations (two of which are highlighted on the right side, in the Fields list).

 

I am unable to delete these duplicate annotations. I have also tried to delete the text field directly, but this leaves a weird "Field" reference that I cannot delete either.

 

Has anyone expereinced this behavior before? Any suggestions on how to clean this up? It really does seem like these form fields have become corrupted, and other than starting over from scratch, I am at a loss as to how I should proceed.

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try67
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Community Expert
December 16, 2024

My solution is to move these fields to a blank area of the page and then use the Redaction tool (hold down Ctrl when using it for free-form drawing) to remove them entirely.

Thom Parker
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Community Expert
December 16, 2024

There are a number of posts on this Topic. I think JR Boulay figured out a brilliant solution, but I don't remember what he did. 

Here's a search on the term "Ghost Field".  You may find what you are looking for here.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false&allow_punctuation=false&q=ghost%20field

 

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often