Glossary

Desktop Publishing

Glossary of terms associated with the typesetting and printing industries.

Topics Typesetting Printing Computing Publishing Industry

Terms listing

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Backing up Backslant Balance Balloon Bank Banner Base artwork Baseline Bed Binding Bitmap images Black patch Blanket cylinder Bleed Blind emboss Block in Blow up Blurb Board Body Body size Body type Boilerplate Bold type Bond Border Box Bristol board Broadside Bromide Bronzing Bullet Burn

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Calendered finish Caliper Camera ready Cap line Caps Caps and small caps Caption Carbonless Caret marks Cartridge Case bound Cast coated Cast off Catchline Century Schoolbook Chalking Character count Chase Clip Art Clipart Close up CMYK (Process color)Coated Cold type Collate Color Color scheme Color separations Color Triad Column Column rule Compose Composition Comprehensive layout Concertina fold Condensed Continuous tone Contrast Copy Copyright Corner marks Cropping Cross head Cursive Cut flush Cutout CYMK

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Dagger and double dagger Dash Descender Desktop publishing Die Digital Printing Dingbat Disk Operating System Display type DOS Dot matrix printer Dots Per Inch Double density Double page spread Double-sided printing Downloadable fonts DPI Drawn on Drop cap Dry transfer (lettering)DTP (Desktop Publishing)Dye transfer

E

EGA Egyptian Eight sheet Electronic Publishing Electrostatic Printing Elements of Design Em Em dash Embossing Emphasis En En dash Encapsulated PostScript End papers Enhanced Graphics Adapter EPS Epson emulation Exception dictionary Expanded type Express

F

Face Fill Filler Film Final Flag Flexography Flexography Printing Floating accent Floppy disk Flush left Flush right Flush right (or left)Flyer Foil blocking Font Font (or fount)Font Size For position only Form letter Formal balance Forme FPO Fraction French fold Full measure Full point

G

Galley proof Galleys Gatefold Gathering GEM GIF Gloss ink Golden ratio Gothic Grams per square metre Graphic Communications Graphics Graphics Environment Manager Gravure Gravure Printing Greeking Grey scale Grid GSM Guard Gutter

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Hairline rule Hairlines Half up Halftone Halftone cell Halftone screen Hanging punctuation Hard disk Hardback Harmony Head Headline Helvetica Hemp Hickey Highlight House style Hyphenation

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Icons Illustration Imagesetting Imposition imPRESS Impression cylinder Imprint InDesign Informal balance Insert Interface International paper sizes International Standard Book Number Interpress ISBN Italic Ivory board

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JPEG JPEG format Justify

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kb Keep standing Kenaf Kerning Keyline Kilobyte Kraft paper

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Laid Laminate Landscape Laser printer Lateral reversal Layout Lead Leading Legal Legend Letraset Letter Letterpress Letterset Letterspacing Library picture Ligature Light table Lightface Line Line block Line gauge Linen tester Lines per inch Lineup table Lining figures Linotype Lithography Logo Loose leaf Loupe Lower case LPI

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Machine glazed Macro Magnetic ink Make-up Making ready Manilla Manuscript Margin Margins Mark up Mask Mass Masthead Matt art Mb Measure Mechanical Mechanical binding Mechanical tint Megabyte Memory Menu-driven Metallic ink MG Mock-up Modem Modern Moire pattern Monospace Montage Mounting board Mouse MS Mutt

N

Nameplate NCR Newsprint Nipping

O

Oblique OCR Offprint Offset lithography Oldstyle Onion skin Opacity Open Prepress Initiative OPI Optical centre Optical Character Recognition Optical Disks Orientation Orphan Outline Output device Overlay Overprinting Overs Overstrike Ozalid

P

Page Description Language Page layout Page Printer Page proofs PageMaker Pagination Panel layout Pantone Matching System Paper plate Paperback Paragraph mark Parallel fold Paste up PDF PDL Perfect binding Perfector Photograph Photogravure Photoshop Phototypesetting Pi fonts Pica Picking Pipelining Pixels per Inch Plate PMS Point Point of Interest Point Size Portable Document Format Portrait Positive PostScript PPI Pre-Press Preview mode Primary colors Primary colours Principles of Design Print engine Printer Command Language Printing Process Colors Progressives Proof Proof correction marks Proportion Proportional spacing Proxy Pull-down menus Pullquote Pulp

Q

Quadding QuarkXPress Quire

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rag content Rag paper Ragged Ranged left/right Raster Image Processor Ream Recycled Red, Green, Blue Reference marks Register Register marks Registration Relief Printing Resize Resolution Rest in Proportion Retouching Reverse out Revise RGB Rhythm Right reading RIP River Roman Rotary press Rough Rough-layout Royal Rule of thirds Ruler Runaround Running head

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S/S Saddle stitching Same size Sans serif Sans serif font Scale Scaling Scamp Scanner Scraperboard Screen Printing Secondary colors Section Section mark Security paper Separations Serif Serif font Service Bureau Set off Set size Set solid Shape Sheet Sheet fed Sheetwise Side heading Side stabbed Sidebar Signature Single-sided printing Sixteen sheet Size Slab serif Slurring Small caps Snap-to (guide or rules)Soft back/cover Soft or discretionary hyphen Solidus Spell check Spine Spot color SRA Standing cap Standoff Stat Stem Stet Stock art Strap Strawboard Strike-through Stripping Stroke Style sheet Subscript Supercalendered paper Superscript Surprint Swash letters Swatch

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Tabloid Tabular setting Tagged Image File Format Tags Template Tertiary colors Text Text color Text type Text Wrap Texture Thermography Thin space Thirty two sheet Thumbnail Thumbnails TIFF Tint Tip in Tone line process Toolbox Tracking Transparency Trapping Trash can Tree free Trim Turnkey Turtleback Twin wire Typeface Typescript Typo Typographer Typography

U

U&lc UCC Unity Universal Copyright Convention

V

Value Varnishing Vector images Vellum Ventura Publisher Vertical justification Vignette Virtual Page Visual Communications Visual Design

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Watermark Waxer Web Weight Wf White space Widow Windows Wire Woodfree paper Word break Word wrap Work and tumble Work and turn Wove WYSIWYG

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X-Acto knife X-height Xerography

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