Publishing

Publishing

Publishing is the process of producing literature, music or information and making it available to the general public.

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vellum

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A textured off-white paper that has been treated to resemble the original animal skins (ie: calfskin, lambskin, kidskin, etc) prepared for writing, and used for manuscripts and other documents. See ...

rune

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing Germanic languages, especially of Scandinavia and Britain, from about the 3rd to 13th centuries; see diacritic, ...

copy

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Matter intended to be reproduced in printed form; derived from "abundant", copious. Also, the text of a story, advertisement, commercial, or the like. Also, any one of the various examples or ...

margin / margins

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The border or edge space separating or surrounding printed matter on a page. Standard proportion stipulates that the bottom margin is larger than the top, and the top margin is larger than the sides. ...

pixel

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The smallest element of an image that can be individually processed in a video display system; abbreviated "px", as derived from "picture + element" or "picture + cell". Compare vector, lpi / lpcm; ...

gem

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A four-point type; see font, type. Also, the abbreviation for the Graphics Environment Manager (GEM) by Digital Research; being a graphical interface designed to both make the operation of software ...

galley proof

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A proof taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections; originally a proof set from type in a galley. ...