Publishing

Publishing

Publishing is the process of producing literature, music or information and making it available 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 topics, with page ...

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 a software ...

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 signed decimal number ...