Printing & publishing

Printing & publishing

The industry concerned with the preparation and distribution of printed material to the general public.

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blad

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An advanced book information promotional, which usually includes the book's cover, the jacket flap copy, the table of contents, the book's specifications, the book's publication ...

baseline lock

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Consistent typographic alignment of all body copy (eg: column, caption, call-out, text box, heading, etc) to the same baseline (qv), regardless of font, point size, or leading; ...

wingding

Printing & publishing; Publishing

See dingbat, Pi fonts, ornament, glyph.

keylines

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The lines on a mechanical or a negative, showing the exact size, shape, and location of photographs or other graphic elements; also called "holding lines". See register marks, ...

frobnicate

Printing & publishing; Publishing

To manipulate or adjust something, especially a bidirectional or biconditional entity; colloquially contracted to "frob". See tweak; compare debug, twiddle.

pastiche / pasticcio

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A literary or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques from borrowed sources, as a hodgepodge assemblage; derived from "paste", to strew or sprinkle. ...