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Article #2237Re: Aldus / Adobe Persuasion
From: Vernon Quaintance
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 00:00
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Ben Lovejoy <ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Forgive the off-topic post, but no luck in sales/wanted areas, and folk in > here tend to be excellent sources of obscure assistance ... > > I'm trying to get hold of a copy of Persuasion. This is a Powerpoint-type > package originally made by Aldus and later bought by Adobe. Unfortunately, > the package has been discontinued (despite v4 having only been launched a > few months ago), presumably blown out of the water by Powerpoint being part > of MS Office. > > Aldus doesn't have any stock, nor does Adobe, nor does MacWarehouse, > MacEssentials or any of the smaller dealers I've tried. > > Version 3 is ideally what I'm after. > > Why do I need it? Powerpoint is useless for use with a projector, offering > no real layering facility - it's fine for text-only slides, but not for > ones with graphics. > > Does anyone have a copy they no longer need? If so, do you want to convert > it to beer vouchers? > > Ben MacLine have Adobe Persuasion in their current catalogue (Version 3 is shown in the illustration). It is priced at �195 + vat. Their phone number is (0181) 401 1111. Past experience is that they have nearly everything in stock as they are wholesalers as well as retailers. Vernon -- Vernon Quaintance vernon@dircon.co.uk
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,57d888a6b92f312c X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: vernon@dircon.co.uk (Vernon Quaintance) Subject: Re: Aldus / Adobe Persuasion Date: 1997/12/14 Message-ID: <1d18488.fg8zj3lnzzlqN@th-eng07-029.pool.dircon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 298097036 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <B0B891A296681B8582@lovejoy.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: Q Audio-Visual MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac