Adobe Persuasion Explained
Adobe Persuasion (formerly Aldus Persuasion) is a discontinued presentation program developed for the Macintosh platform by Aldus Corporation. After it was acquired by Adobe Systems in 1994, when the two companies merged, a Microsoft Windows version was released. Adobe discontinued production from September 1997.
A key feature of Persuasion, which distinguished it from Microsoft PowerPoint at the time, was the use of an outline to represent the text content of the slides, which was immediately reflected on the slides (and vice versa). PowerPoint eventually provided an equivalent feature.
Versions history
- Aldus Persuasion 1.0. Made for Macintosh only. Created by Peter Polash in 1988.[4]
- Aldus Persuasion 2.0. Made for Macintosh in 1989[5] and for Windows in 1991.[6]
- Aldus Persuasion 2.x[7]
- Adobe Persuasion 3.0. Had both Mac and Windows versions, and was released in 1995.[8] [9] It was bundled with the Persuasion Player.
- Adobe Persuasion 4.0. Was released in 1996. The Mac and Windows versions shipped together, with a simultaneous end-user license for each platform. It was bundled with Adobe Acrobat Distiller 3.0, Acrobat Reader 3.0, Persuasion Player, Adobe Type Manager, and a collection of clip art, movies, sounds, and 20 fonts. It included a utility to directly convert Microsoft PowerPoint files.
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Notes and References
- Web site: Arabesque Quick Facts:Senior Management Pete Polash, wrote Persuasion,He sold its marketing rights to Aldus Corp. in 1988. . 2016-06-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070720073713/http://www.compusol.org/ecco/text/arabesquefacts.html . 2007-07-20 .
- http://thecodist.com/article/my-own-successful-startup-story--in-1984 My Own Successful Startup Story ... In 1984
- https://books.google.com/books?id=ADoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Aldus+Persuasion%22&pg=PT30 Aldus Release Persuasion 1.0 for Mac
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27310288 Aldus Persuasion (Computer file, 1988)
- https://books.google.com/books?id=eTAEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Aldus+Persuasion%22&pg=RA1-PR2 Corrections:Report Card: Aldus Persuasion Version 2.0
- https://books.google.com/books?id=wFAEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Aldus+Persuasion%22&pg=PA66 Waiting in the Wings - Lotus Freelance Graphics and Aldus Persuasion for Windows
- https://books.google.com/books?id=a2YTCyIAwwIC&dq=%22Aldus+Persuasion%22&pg=PT61 Persuasion Adds Runtime Slide Show Player, DDE, and OLE
- https://books.google.com/books?id=HvXDMJoM4HQC&dq=%22Aldus+Persuasion%22&pg=PA278 Graphics:Desktop Presentations:Looking Ahead:Impact and Persuasion
- https://books.google.com/books?id=v-ujWW1YGuwC&dq=%22Aldus+Persuasion%22&pg=PA37 First Looks:Presentations:Aldus Persuasion Makes Multimedia Work
