INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS

Desktop Publishing Terms

Sample List of DTP Terminology

Alleys

ASCII

Baseline

Baseline shifts

Bitmapped characters

Camera-ready

Copyfitting

Counters

Delimiter

Descenders

Dithering

DPI

Drop caps

Em space

En space

EPS

Figure

Gray-scale

Greeked text

Gutter

Halftone

Hanging indent

Headers and footers

JPEG

Kerning (kern)

Landscape

Layering

Leaders

Leading

Letter spacing

Master pages

Masthead

Monospaced typefaces

Negative space

Pica

Picas (px or pi)

Pitch

Pixel

Point

Points (pts)

Portrait

Proportionally spaced typefaces

Recto

Resolution

Sans serif

Serifs

Superscript and subscript

TIFF

Tracking (track)

Typeface

Typography

Verso

Window/orphan

Word spacing

Word wrap

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