Desktop Publishing Flashcards
What is a text box?
a box you insert text into.
What is Colour fill?
Allows colour to be added to shapes or boxes within a document.
What are Handles?
attached to frames to allow manipulation.
What are margins?
The white space and borders around the page.
What is a title?
Text that introduces the article or subject
What is extended Text?
Text consisting of several lines.
What is Cropping?
The Background image is taken away from the main image.
What is Text Wrap?
When text follows the outline of a graphic.
What is Flow text along a path?
text that travels in the same direction as a line or curve.
What is the Serif Font?
any typeface which has bars crossing the ends of strokes
What is Sans Serif Font?
Sans serif means without serif.
Any typeface which doesn’t have the bars across the ends of strokes.
What is Bleed?
An extension of a graphic or block of colour beyond the trimmed edge of a page.
What is transparency?
Making fills and images partially see through.
What is a Drop Shadow?
A shadow created behind an object or text to create depth and emphasis.
What is rotation?
Images and text boxes can be rotated within a document. This helps to create movement and rhythm therefore creating emphasis.
What is justification?
Text can be justified right, left, centrally or fully depending on what’s required?
What is Paper Sizing?
The physical size of a document. For example. A4, A3, A2, and A1
What is reverse?
When the text colour is changed from black to white on a dark background as it creates contrast.
What is a column
The width of a frame of the body text. It shortens the line length making it easier to read.
What is a gutter?
The narrow space between columns of text.
What is a Caption?
a brief description that accompanies a photograph, graphic, or table.
What is Bitmap?
An image file comprised of pixels. these tend to be large files.
What is Drop Capital?
The first letter (upper case) in an article or paragraph that is enlarged and dropped below the line. Identifies the start of an article.
What is eye Dropper/Colour Picker?
A DTP Tool that enables exact colour matching of one colour to another.
What are frames?
Non-printing boxes that contain text or graphic items. these can be moved, resized or rotated.
What is JPEG?
A common image file type used for photographs. File sizes are relatively small.
What is mirror/Reflection?
Creating a symmetrical or opposite image
What is portable Network Graphing? (PNG)
A file type that allows the background to be transparent
What is a sub-heading?
An intermediate level of heading, having a size between that of the heading and body text.
What is a Vector Graphic?
A scalable computer graphic made of shapes, lines and fills.
