Greeting Card Factory for Mac

Free to try Nova Development Mac OS X 10.1/10.2/10.3 Version 1.0.2 Full Specs

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From Nova Development:

Show your loved ones how much you care by making your next greeting card with Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory for Macintosh. Create beautiful, store-quality greeting cards for every occasion in minutes. Choose from millions of unique greeting card possibilities or create your own. With more than 3,000 exclusive greeting cards and customizable projects, 45,000+ beautiful graphics, 500+ color photographs and 300 fonts, you'll always find the best way to express yourself. Optimized to take advantage of Mac OS Xs superior graphical capabilities and ease of use, Greeting Card Factory for Macintosh is also fully compatible with Mac OS 9. Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory is the easiest and most complete greeting card software available for the Macintosh. It goes far beyond competing products with many more unique possibilities. It also allows you to create dozens of other projects and crafts including announcements, invitations, photo cards, thank you notes, electronic greetings, envelopes, note cards, postcards, labels, and much more - all in one program!

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"Never Updated"

majormike June 27, 2011 / Version: Greeting Card Factory 1.0.2

2011-06-27 15:44:34 | By majormike

Pros

Makes decent cards

Cons

Hasn't been updated since 2003. Runs on rosetta. Pretty clunky and now it will be killed by Lion.

Summary

Works ok, but is clunky. It will be obsoleted by Lion as Rosetta will no longer be available.

2 stars

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"Mediocre and clunky"

jeff_glenn99 June 19, 2011 / Version: Greeting Card Factory 1.0.2

2011-06-19 08:52:22 | By jeff_glenn99

Pros

Includes a large set of graphics supporting many templates. Graphics and text is fairly easy to add and edit. The printing wizard is understandable.

Cons

Very awkward to preview cards: you must open a card to see inside. If you don't want it, you must: close it, Choose a Template, resize the previews, scroll to where you were, open... repeat. No nudge for small movements. Only one message per card.

Summary

Greeting Card Factory is usable, but awkward. I expected by version 8.0 to find a much easier to use and solid program.

The process of finding the card you want is too clumsy. The inside of the card is only viewable after you open the card and only one message is available for each. You can search, but only by their nearly random titles; search doesn't use the message text: not useful.

The printing wizard shows how to load your printer using a cute animation; a static picture would be better. The program often refuses to print envelopes unless you close it and run it again.

You can have different properties in the same text item, but keeping those different properties usually means resetting them each time you edit the text; all are silently reset to one property.

There is no nudge to move card elements a small amount so it's tricky to get you elements where you want them. This is particularly true when you change the text. I often find I need to tweak their text so this is frustrating.

Overall, the program works, but it has many rough edges that should have been polished long before version 8.

1 stars

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"What Software"

dymettam August 29, 2010 / Version: Greeting Card Factory 1.0.2

2010-08-29 19:11:58 | By dymettam

Pros

Nothing
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Nothing

Cons

No software to install!

Summary

My download had nothing to install, so I have nothing to evaluate

1 stars

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"Software will not install (see below)"

BigF00T February 13, 2009 / Version: Greeting Card Factory 1.0.2

2009-02-13 06:25:38 | By BigF00T

Pros

Well - at least the promotional material looked and sounded really good

Cons

Comes in an SIT (Stuff-It) file. You must have the Stuff-It expander installed (which I do). The VICE program that installs the software said that "The default location cannot be found - Installation cancelled".. Bummer..

Summary

I'd REALLY like a good greeting card program to use on my MacBook Pro. I am willing to pay for the product that actually works and doesn't produce cards that look like a 4 year old did them. It's not that I'm cheap and won't go to the store to buy them. I am not mobile so I am stuck here. I also like things that people create themselves and place a much greater value on them than I do anything that is store boughten.
Oh well - thanks for listening..

4 stars

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"great tool"

anay82 December 13, 2008 / Version: Greeting Card Factory 1.0.2

2008-12-13 23:24:52 | By anay82

Pros

great tool

Cons

great tool

1 stars

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"Only runs in adminstrator accounts"

chabig83 November 28, 2005 / Version: Greeting Card Factory 1.0.2

2005-11-28 21:45:09 | By chabig83

Summary

This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I don't know why, but this program will not launch in a user account. It crashes every time. It only runs in an administrator account, which makes it useless. What a poor product.

2 stars

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"Not happy with the product"

ronbelisle January 08, 2004 / Version: Greeting Card Factory 1.0.2

2004-01-08 16:57:35 | By ronbelisle

Summary

This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
This is poorly designed software. It can only be used in one user account on the Mac. Other users on the same Mac do not have access to the graphics which are important for creating the cards. Also, there are very limited options for printing. I was hoping to be able to print on 8.5 x 5.5 inch photo paper, but there is no custom setting for paper size. Also, one canÃ¢??t resize user windows. The default window is too small.

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What's new in version 1.0.2
Fixes problem sending of electronic greetings with Entourage. Fixes problem where two help menus were sometimes displayed in OS X 10.3. Fixes some text problems in project wizard text.

General
Publisher	Nova Development
Publisher web site	http://www.novadevelopment.com
Release Date	December 12, 2003
Date Added	December 12, 2003
Version	1.0.2

Category
Category	Developer Tools
Subcategory	Components & Libraries

Operating Systems
Operating Systems	Mac OS X 10.1/10.2/10.3
Additional Requirements	Mac OS 9.1 - OS X 10.1 or higher

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File Size	3.97MB
File Name	gcm102.sit

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Total Downloads	19,805
Downloads Last Week	3

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License Model	Free to try
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Price	$49.95

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