• Art Explosion Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 2.0, successor to the world's all-time best-selling scrapbook software title, allows customers to create scrapbooks and other custom projects, using templates or their own designs. Scrapbook Factory Deluxe 2.0 features more than 2,500 exclusive templates and customizable projects, 25,000+ graphics, and 500+ Bitstream fonts.
  
  
• Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory 3.0 and Greeting Card Factory Deluxe 3.0 are the most complete greeting card software titles available on the market. Greeting Card Factory 3.0 includes more than 7,500 exclusive greeting cards and customizable projects, 40,000+ graphics, and 300+ Bitstream fonts. Greeting Card Factory Deluxe 3.0 raises the bar with more than 15,000 exclusive greeting cards and customizable projects, 80,000+ graphics, and 500+ Bitstream fonts. It also features a photo editor and CD greeting card maker.
  
  
• Art Explosion Humorous Greeting Card Factory includes more than 12,000 amusing graphics, 1,000+ witty sentiments, and 300+ Bitstream fonts.
  
  
• Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory Macintosh, the first product of its kind designed specifically for the Macintosh platform, features more than 3,000 exclusive greeting cards and customizable projects, 45,000+ premium-quality graphics, and 300+ Bitstream fonts.
  

Nova selected the fonts for these titles from Bitstream's library of more than 900 fonts. Bitstream's typographers have more than two decades of experience making high-quality typographic designs for developers of applications and operating systems.

"Bitstream fonts are well known throughout the world for their typographic quality," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "Because of our experience working with application developers who need great-looking text on screen, we could offer Nova Development many different display and text fonts from our extensive library. We are happy to provide Nova Development and its customers with a comprehensive array of high-quality fonts for its imaginative software programs."

"Fonts are an important part of our software offerings, and we selected only the best for our customers, "said Brad Crystal, Vice President of Marketing at Nova Development. "With hundreds of Bitstream fonts to choose from, it was easy for us to find typeface designs that complemented our personal productivity and small business software."

About

Bitstream Inc.
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS)is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc and Font Fusion technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, wireless and handheld devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, and printers. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Building on this experience, Bitstream has released ThunderHawk, a breakthrough technology for the wireless Web.

Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first independent digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. ( www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Also in 1999, Bitstream established Pageflex (www.pageflexinc.com), the pioneer of a new direction in composition software: Web-top publishing. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Nova Development
Based in Southern California, Nova Development Corporation 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.

Bitstream, Font Fusion, and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and the Bitstream logo and ThunderHawk are trademarks, of Bitstream Inc. MyFonts.com is a trademark of MyFonts.com, Inc., a Bitstream company. Pageflex is a registered trademark of Pageflex, a Bitstream company. Art Explosion, Explosion, Greeting Card Factory, and Scrapbook Factory are registered trademarks of Nova Development. Other technologies and brand names are used for information only and remain trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Anna Chagnon
President
Bitstream Inc.
617.520.8619

Brad Crystal
VP, Marketing
Nova Development Corporation
818.591.9600