Nova Development’s Art Explosion® Greeting Card Factory® for Macintosh is now shipping

CALABASAS, Calif., October 2, 2003 — Nova Development’s Art Explosion® Greeting Card Factory for Macintosh makes its much-anticipated debut today. Built specifically for Mac OS X (but also fully compatible with Mac OS 9), Greeting Card Factory is the first Macintosh software product that enables you to design and print thousands of store-quality greeting cards as well as a host of other sensational projects.

Built on Nova’s #1 best-selling Print Explosion engine, Greeting Card Factory for Macintosh allows you to create beautiful store-quality greeting cards for every conceivable occasion. You can choose from more than 3,000 exclusive greeting cards and customizable projects like invitations, thank-you notes, announcements, electronic
greetings, labels, stickers, and much more—all in one box!

With literally millions of unique possibilities*, 45,000+ premium-quality graphics, 300+ fonts, and more than five hundred 24-bit color photographs to choose from, it’s the easiest and most complete greeting card software you can buy for the Mac. The software also features spectacular text effects that make it possible to apply gradients and textures to text. Or even to insert pictures inside letters.

"Macintosh users are finally getting the world-class greeting card software they deserve," said Brad Crystal, Nova Development’s vice president of marketing. "We’ve optimized Greeting Card Factory for Macintosh to ensure that it takes full advantage of Mac OS X’s superior graphical capabilities and ease of use."

"The ease of use of Macintosh, its rock-solid reliability and the gorgeous Aqua interface truly enrich the user experience," said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of developer relations. "With Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory for Macintosh, Nova Development is responding to the increasing demand from Mac users for a wide variety of creative, high-quality greeting cards."

Pricing & Availability
Greeting Card Factory for Macintosh is available now at software retailers nationwide, including Apple Retail Store locations, for an estimated street price of $49.95.

System Requirements
Minimum system requirements for Greeting Card Factory for Macintosh are: Mac OS X (10.1 or later) or Mac OS 9 (9.1 or later). Works with all popular printers – inkjet and laser.

Company Background
Based in Southern California, Nova Development is a market leader in personal and small business productivity software for both the Windows and Macintosh platforms. Now among the top 4 productivity software publishers in the United States, Nova has a history of providing new technologies that consistently expand the uses of desktop computers for a variety of users, from home to school to business. For more information, call (818) 591-9600. Fax: (818) 591-8885. Or visit Nova Development on the Web at http://www.novadevelopment.com.

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CONTACT:
Teri Bruno, 714/536-8407
teribruno@aol.com

or

Michele Kennedy
208-552-5661
michelekennedy@cableone.net

Art Explosion and Explosion are registered trademarks of Nova Development Corp. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

*Calculated by multiplying the number of layouts by the number of graphics. Greeting cards include note cards, invitations, announcements, photo cards and specialty cards.