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My wife needs InDesign, the graphic arts program, and we don't have the money to spend on this rediculous thing ($700). I'd be willing to pay as much as $300.00 to shut her the hell up, but thats a goddamn miracle, apparently.

https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/sto...hod=FULL&nr=0#

So basically, I'm not saying I need to find a way to get it for free... but, I'd like to get a version of it for less or perhaps as cheap as $0.00. J/K, I want to pay for it, but I need either an older version or used version for less.

Any ideas?

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ebay
Amazon
Black Market
Sell your kidney for lots of money

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Paying for a PC program? :ohreilly:

I don't really know how to do that.

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Does it matter if its CS3 or 4?

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No, but it can't be older than CS3. Thanks in advance.

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Not sure why your wife needs a copy. If she's a student, you can get a student version for $200 (CS4). If she's not, and plans on selling anything she makes, the license of the student version makes that illegal. However, if she's selling, she should either work for a company she can ask for a copy from to work at home, or she is self-employed, in which case pay full price and write it off as a business expense.

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Long story short: She has a degree in grphic arts from Philadelphia University (formally Textiles) and has an old G4 with other graphic arts programs, but not InDesign. Now she finds that in order to get a job with most of the GD companies out there, she needs InDesign experience, but has no access to it at her current job.

Also, whether or not its a business expense, that doesn't put $700 of expendable cash in our pockets now. You can only write something off if you can afford it in the first place.

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While not advocated by me or GT in any way, most things like this can be downloaded illegally through Bittorrent.

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All I can maybe get are mac versions.

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Nah, her G4 is too old. It needs to be PC. Thanks anyway.

I really don't want to bootleg a copy if I have any other choice in the matter. Its against my code of ethics. We just can't afford that much for a computer program. I just wish they had a personal version, and not just the commercial one.

On a side note, though, pricing like this is how software piraters justify what they do...

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You can download a fully working 30 day trial. Not helpful in the long run, but buys you some time to find a more permanent solution.

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So how about I find the software for you, and you pay me, I'll be the middleman, and just for you, it'll be cheap. justdon'taskwhereIgotitfromok?

edit: you pay me, I said that because you said it was against your code of ethics. you may not even pay me anything. :p

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GM - She already has that, but thanks.

NH - That doesn't sound shady at all :D

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pleasure doing business with you.

*runs away*

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She needs experience with it. Can't she just keep retrying the trial? If it has all the functions, she can keep training herself that way.

Just a thought...

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uhm...

look.

I'm a big supporter of doing things uhm...

The "not moral way"

Uhm companies charge you way too much for things... Adobe and Microsoft are great examples. Even home consumer versions of Windows are outrageous at release dates, just to drop in price 6 months later.

It's unfortunate too, there are some many great programs that are either just as good as, or superior to most of the stuff released by large companies. Open Office is a great example. I wish more corporations and people would give a big thumbs down to most of the software developing companies of today.

Just, whatever screw adobe.

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Adobe Photoshop is overpriced, but there is no competition.

I really hate adobe. Adobe reader that pile of shit program is on almost everyone's fucking computer. One of my many pet peeves when I fix friend and family's computers.

Anyway, adobe's editing software is powerful, professional and well coded. That said it is still overpriced (but it can be when big businesses use it).

I'd try to do what Gekko suggested and get a student copy or something. Or i'd just head on over to the pirate bay....:sneaky:

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Actually reader is cool. It's free, and pretty useful.

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There are better lightweight alternatives that don't constantly nag you about updates and tie up your memory.

But to each his own.

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