Corel Begins Shipping New "Magic" Holiday Line.OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1997--Corel Corporation (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :COS)(NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :COSFF) today announced it has begun shipping its new line of "Magic" products in time for the holiday season. The value-packed product line features Corel Print House(TM) Magic, Corel GALLERY(TM) Magic 65,000 and Corel GALLERY(TM) Magic 200,000. Corel Print House Magic has begun shipping and is scheduled to be in stores by the end of October while Corel GALLERY Magic 65,000 and 200,000 is scheduled to be on store shelves by early November. Corel Print House Magic, the third major release in Corel's Print House family, makes it faster and easier than ever to create professional looking greeting cards See e-card. , banners, stationery and more. Boasting a new polished user interface, Corel Print House Magic is available for a suggested retail price of $59.95 U.S. Price subject to change without notice. Dealers may sell for less. Corel Print House(TM) Magic Touted as an introductory CorelDRAW(TM) product, Corel Print House 3 offers a complete complement of pre designed projects and complete design freedom. Designed for the first-time user or the amateur graphic artist, the program includes a context-sensitive property bar, fully editable clipart, drag-and-drop functionality and an instant preview that lets users see changes before committing to them. Also included in the package is Corel Photo House(TM) 2 which can be launched directly from Corel Print House 3 simply by double clicking on an embedded image. As well, the program is packed with sophisticated tools such as the image sprayer, symbol tool, symbol sprayer and 25 new brush presets that allow users to mimic real painting effects. The third major application in the box is the new Corel Family & Friends(TM). Combining a calendar, address book and list manager, Corel Family & Friends will pop up reminders of special occasions -- days or weeks in advance. "Corel Print House Magic is an exceptional program for users of all ages," said Dr. Michael Cowpland Michael Cowpland (born April 23, 1943) is a Canadian entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company. Cowpland was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England and obtained a BSc. , president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. . "We've designed this program so that users can advance to more complicated designs or quickly create great looking projects for the home or office." Corel GALLERY(TM) Magic 200,000 and Corel GALLERY(TM) Magic 65,000 Following in the footsteps of the popular Corel GALLERY(TM) line of clipart libraries, Corel GALLERY Magic 200,000 packed with more than 105,000 fully-editable, vector clipart images is a perfect compliment to Corel Print House Magic. Corel GALLERY Magic 65,000 features over 25,000 vector clipart images and 100 animated gifs. Both products include a powerful multimedia file manager and the Corel(R) Photo Browser Database as well as thousands of royalty-free photos, Web images, a Wizard-style search interface and more than 500 fonts. Corel GALLERY Magic 65,000 is available for a suggested retail price of $24.95 U.S. and CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. while Corel GALLERY Magic 200,000 is available for a suggested retail price of $69.95 U.S. and CDN. Prices subject to change without notice. Dealers may sell for less. Mail-in Rebate Just in time for the holidays, Corel is offering users a limited time $10 U.S. and CDN mail-in rebate when purchasing Corel Print House Magic, or a $30 U.S. and CDN mail-in rebate if purchasing Corel Print House Magic and Corel GALLERY Magic 200,000 together. See details on box. Offer is valid until Feb. 28, 1998 only. System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. : Corel Print House Magic requires a 486 DX CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. or better, Windows(R) 95 or Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) 4.0, 8 MB RAM for Windows 95 or 16 MB RAM for Windows NT 4.0, 55 MB free hard disk space, 1 MB SVGA (Super VGA) A screen resolution of 800x600 pixels. Third-party vendors extended IBM's VGA display standard and were the first to use the term. SVGA has also referred to 1,024x768 resolutions. See PC display modes. 256 color monitor See monitor. and display card, mouse or tablet and a double speed CD-ROM See 2x CD-ROM. drive. Corel GALLERY Magic 65,000 and Corel GALLERY Magic 200,000 run on Windows(R) 3.1 or Windows 95, a 486 DX33 PC, 8 MB RAM, a 256 color VGA monitor An analog display screen that accepts VGA signals from the computer. See VGA and display adapter. , a mouse and a double speed CD-ROM drive. Availability: Corel Print House Magic will soon be available in French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, German, Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, . All previous Windows versions of Corel Print House and the Corel GALLERY line will be discontinued when the new products are on store shelves. Technical Services: The Corel(R) TutorLine is a new 900 number that gives users in the United States access to personal assistance on the features and functionality of Corel Print House Magic. U.S. residents can call 900/226-0668 from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. EST Monday to Friday. Cost is $1.25 U.S. per minute. Price subject to change without notice. Corel Corporation Incorporated in 1985, Corel Corporation is recognized internationally as an award-winning developer and marketer of productivity applications, graphics and Internet software for the corporate and retail markets. Corel's products, which run on most operating platforms, are consistently rated among the strongest in the industry. The company's product line, including CorelDRAW(TM), Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) Suite, Corel VENTURA(TM) and Corel(R) WebMaster Suite, ships in over 17 languages through a network of more than 160 distributors in 70 countries worldwide. Corel is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. (symbol: COS) and the NASDAQ National Market System (symbol: COSFF). For more information visit Corel's Web site at www.corel.com . -0- Note to Editors: Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, Corel GALLERY, Corel Photo House, Corel Print House, Corel Family & Friends and Corel VENTURA are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation Limited. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Corel Corporation U.S. Catherine Hughes, 613/728-0826 ext. 1659 E-mail: catherineh@corel.com Website: www.corel.com or Corel Corporation Canada Carrie Bendzsa, 613/728-0826 ext. 1524 E-mail: carriebe@corel.com |
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