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- ↑ Products. Livecycle Adobe.com
- ↑ see Archived copy Archived July 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine p. 1081 for supported tags
- ↑ "Adobe Acrobat".
- ↑ "Bug List - Stefan Cameron on Forms".
