Adobe Persuasion
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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.
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![]() Persuasion running under System 7. | |
Original author(s) | Peter Polash[1][2] |
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Developer(s) | Aldus Corporation |
Initial release | November 1988; 35 years ago (1988-11)[3] |
Final release | 4.0
/ 1996; 28 years ago (1996) |
Operating system | Classic Mac OS and Microsoft Windows |
Type | Presentation program |
License | Proprietary commercial software |
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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.