Need PC Help

[Professor S]

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?

[Combine 017]

ebay
Amazon
Black Market
Sell your kidney for lots of money

[BreakABone]

Paying for a PC program?

I don't really know how to do that.

[Fox 6]

Does it matter if its CS3 or 4?

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Fox 6

Does it matter if its CS3 or 4?

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

[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.

[manasecret]

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

[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...

[GameMaster]

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.

[Nighthawk]

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.

[Professor S]

GM - She already has that, but thanks.

NH - That doesn't sound shady at all

[Nighthawk]

Originally Posted by Professor S

NH - That doesn't sound shady at all

pleasure doing business with you.

*runs away*

[Angrist]

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...