Adobe Persuasion

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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.<ref>Aldus Persuasion (Computer file, 1988), WorldCat.org, Author: Peter Polash; Aldus Corporation. / Publisher: Seattle, WA : Aldus Corp., ©1988. Summary: A comprehensive desktop presentation program with built-in outlining, AutoTemplate technology, and advanced drawing and charting tools. Users can produce overheads, 35 mm. slides, handouts, and speaker notes.</ref>
• Aldus Persuasion 2.0. Made for Macintosh in 1989<ref>Corrections:Report Card: Aldus Persuasion Version 2.0, InfoWorld, 15 Jan 1990, Page S12</ref> and for Windows in 1991.<ref>Waiting in the Wings - Lotus Freelance Graphics and Aldus Persuasion for Windows, By Tracy Capen, InfoWorld, 19 Nov 1990, Page 66</ref>
• Aldus Persuasion 2.x<ref>Persuasion Adds Runtime Slide Show Player, DDE, and OLE, PC Mag, 31 Mar 1992, Page 60, Aldus is now shipping Aldus Persuasion for Windows, Version 2.1...</ref>
• Adobe Persuasion 3.0. Had both Mac and Windows versions, and was released in 1995.<ref>Graphics:Desktop Presentations:Looking Ahead:Impact and Persuasion, By Lance Ulanoff, PC Mag, 27 Sep 1994, Page 278, ...expected to be released in the next six months. Aldus Persuasion, Version 3.0,...</ref><ref>First Looks:Presentations:Aldus Persuasion Makes Multimedia Work, By David Haskin, PC Mag, 7 Feb 1995, Page 37</ref> 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.

External links

• ATPM e-zine review of Persuasion 4.0 from January 1997.