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Glossary

In this section some technical terms of the typesetter and computer worlds are explained. It does not concern itself with complete and exhaustive definitions. This compilation is by no means complete, but it will help you with some of the concepts.

• Algorithm
• Alignment
• Anchor
• Artwork
• Ascender
• Aspect ratio
• Baseline
• B‚zier curve
• Bit
• Block setting
• Body text
• Brightness value
• Bullet
• Byte
• Character
• Character-set
• Cicero
• Clicking
• Clipboard
• CMYK
• Coffee cup
• Colour separation
• Column
• Control code
• Control curve
• Coordinates
• Crop marks
• Dash
• Decimal Tab
• Descender
• Designer height
• Desktop publishing
• Dictionary
• Directory
• Diskette, Floppy disk
• Divis
• DMA
• Document
• Dot matrix printer
• dpi
• Driver
• Drop-down menu
• DTP
• Editor
• Em-height
• Em space
• Exporting
• Figure setting
• File
• Floppy disk
• Folder
• Font
• Formatting
• Frames
• Function groups
• Function panels
• GB
• GEM
• Glyph
• Grey step, Grey value
• Greyscale picture, Grey tone picture
• Grid
• Grotesque fonts
• Guideline
• Gutter
• Hairlines
• Hard drive
• Hardware
• Hot key
• Hinting
• Hyphenation
• Icon
• IHS
• Imagesetter
• Importing
• Imposition (or Mounting)
• Intensity information
• Interface
• Italic
• Joker character
• Justification
• KB
• Kerning
• Key binding
• Laser printer
• Layout
• Layout window
• Leader
• Leading
• Ligature
• Line-breaks
• Lines
• Lower case
• Macro
• Magnetic frames
• Master page
• MB
• Menu bar
• Microprocessor
• Module
• Moir‚ pattern
• Monochrome picture
• Mounting
• Mouse
• Mouse cursor
• Object
• Offset printing
• Orphan
• Overflow
• Pagination
• Pica
• Piping
• Piping chain
• Pixels
• Point
• PostScript
• Printer driver
• Printing master
• Ragged setting
• RAM
• Raster
• Raster area
• Raster graphic
• Registration marks
• Removable disk drive
• Resolution
• RGB
• RIP
• Sans serif fonts
• Scanning
• Scroll bars
• Serifs
• Single colour extract
• Skew
• Small caps
• Snap
• Soft hyphen
• Soft-ripping
• Software
• Spellchecker
• Spot colours
• String
• Text block
• Text flow
• Text ruler
• Text runaround
• Text style
• Tiles
• Top row bar
• Typeface
• Type family
• Typography
• Upper case
• Vector graphic
• Versal
• Virtual memory
• Widow
• Width
• Wildcard character
• Work window
• Wrapping
• Writing mode
• WYSIWYG
• x height

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Last updated on September 3, 2008 (SVN rev. 67)

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