Remove or delete a form field in a PDF document
I access a form via JSObject with VB. I can get the names of fields by jsobject.getfields ("Fieldname") and change their values, but I want to remove fields in the document and have not been able to find anything in the documentation that does this. Is there a removefield or deletefield function or another way to do this?
Thank you.
Even that getField:
jso.removeField ("fieldname")
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