Director & FreeHand Studio Are Half Price

  • 10/01/96
Director 5 and the FreeHand Graphics Studio are available to educators and students at nearly half of their regular cost. This exclusive offer supplies full-featured products with electronic documentation. One CD has the full software program; another CD has all of the documentation for key word searches, bookmarking functions and printing out key pages or chapters. Director 5 is a powerful multimedia authoring tool noted for its handling of video. Its suggested education price (SEP) is $299. FreeHand Graphics Studio comprises FreeHand, Macromedia xRes, Extreme 3D and Fontographer programs. Its SEP is $249. Macromedia, San Francisco, CA, (800) 326-2128, www.macromedia.com.

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