Adobe Persuasion was a presentation program

Presentation program

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 developed for the Macintosh

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 platform

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 by Aldus Corporation. After it was acquired by Adobe Systems

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 in 1994, when the two companies merged, a Microsoft Windows

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 version was released. Adobe discontinued production from September 1997.

A key feature of Persuasion, which distinguished it from Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint

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 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 copied this feature.

Versions history

• Aldus Persuasion 1.0. Made for Macintosh only. Created by Peter Polash.
• Aldus Persuasion 2.0. Made Macintosh and IBM was available in 1991.
• Aldus Persuasion 2.x
• Adobe Persuasion 3.0. Had both Mac and Windows versions, and was released in 1995. 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
  Adobe Type Manager
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  , and a collection of clip art, movies, sounds, and 20 fonts. It included a utility to directly convert Microsoft PowerPoint
  Microsoft PowerPoint
  Microsoft PowerPoint, usually just called PowerPoint, is a non-free commercial presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system...
  
  files.

External links

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