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Printing & publishing
The industry concerned with the preparation and distribution of printed material to the general public.
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hot link
Printing & publishing; Publishing
A link between two applications such that changes in one will automatically affect the other. See link, pointer, hypertext, hot spot, OLE.
index / indices / indexes
Printing & publishing; Publishing
A sequential arrangement of material, especially in alphabetical or numerical order; as derived from "informer". In printed works, an alphabetical listing of names, places, and ...
plug-in / plugin
Printing & publishing; Publishing
An accessory program that augments a main application with extended features or special capabilities, especially for multimedia environments. Plug-ins are sometimes distributed by ...
feeding unit
Printing & publishing; Publishing
Component of a printing press that moves paper into the register unit. See press.
imprimatur
Printing & publishing; Publishing
Sanction or cachet; permission to print and publish a book or pamphlet, after clearance review for dissemination by a censor. See signet, samizdat, expurgate, censorship.
page spread
Printing & publishing; Publishing
The layout of facing pages for checking continuity, format, style, etc. See folio, backup, crossover.
flop
Printing & publishing; Publishing
To invert the negative of a photograph so that the right and left sides are transposed; see illustration. Also, abbreviation for FLoating-point OPeration, wherein normalized ...
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- Books (376)
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- Image processing (4500)
- Magazines (902)
- Newspaper (916)
- Paper (13863)
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- Printing equipment (1605)
- Publishing (14857)
- Typography (800)