Need PC Help

[gekko]

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.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by gekko

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.

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.

[Fox 6]

All I can maybe get are mac versions.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Fox 6

All I can maybe get are mac versions.

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...