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DTP Terms Flashcards

1
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What is word art?

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Easily edited, stretched and shrunk text.

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What is bitmap?

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Image made of pixels, large files and loss of quality when stretched.

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What is bleed?

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An image or colour fill that extends beyond the edge of the page.

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What is body text?

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The main columns of reading text.

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What is a caption?

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Text that explains a graphic.

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What is clip art?

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Purpose-made images from a library.

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What is cmyk?

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Cyan, magenta, yellow and black use in laser and off-set litho printing.

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What is a colour picker?

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A tool that selects and matches colours exactly.

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What is colour swatch?

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A ready made colour chart used for checking printed colours.

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What is a column?

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Vertical, rectangular form that body text is contained in.

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What is a column rule?

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A vertical line separating columns?

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What are crop marks?

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Marks in the print margins of a publication that shows the printer where to trim the page.

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13
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What is cropping?

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When you remove all or part of an images background.

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What is a drop cap?

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A large first letter in an article that emphasises the start.

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What is a drop shadow?

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A shadow placed behind an image to create emphasis or suggest death.

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What is DTP?

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Desktop publishing, creating publications on a computer.

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What is a floating item?

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A graphic item that is not constrained by the layout structure.

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What is flow text?

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A line of text that follows a line or curve.

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What is a footer/folio?

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Text in the footer space at the bottom of a page.

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What are frames?

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Re-sizeable, non-printing boxes that contain text or images.

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What is grid and snap?

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A square grid that the snap function attaches to. Improves accuracy and speed of production.

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What are guidlines?

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Non-printing lines pulled onto the page to support layout construction.

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23
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What is gutter?

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A narrow space separating columns?

24
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What are handles?

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Means of re-shaping and re-sizing frames.

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What is a header?

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Text in the header space at the top of the page.

26
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What is a title/heading?

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Large text that introduces the publication or article.

27
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What is hier archy?

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Order of importance of text in a layout of publication.

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What is indent?

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When the paragraph starts further in than the margin.

29
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What is a jpeg?

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A file type commonly used for storing digital photographs.

30
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What is kerning?

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Narrowing or widening the space between letters to create impact or to save space in the layout.

31
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What are layers?

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The arrangement of items in levels, one on top of the other in a layout.

32
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What is leading?

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The vertical spacing between lines of text.

33
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What is offset lithography?

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The main commercial mass production printing method.

34
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What is os paper?

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Oversized paper that is trimmed to size after printing.

35
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What is pantone?

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Colour system used to categorize pre-mixed inks; used in pens and spot colour printing.

36
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What is a pdf?

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A portable document file used for commercial printing and digital documents

37
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What is a PNG?

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An image file that comes with a transparent document

38
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What is a pull quote?

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Catchy or controversial comment pulled from the body text and enlarged

39
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What is pre-flight?

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Preparations for setting up a document ready for a print-run

40
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What are registration marks?

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Marks on the printing margins of a publication that help line up printing plates and printing colours

41
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What is reverse?

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Converting black text to white

42
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What is RGB?

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Red green and blue, used to create colours on-screen

43
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What is rotating?

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Turnint or tilting an item in a layout, normally to create emphasis

44
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What is sand serif and serif?

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Two main types of typeface, serif letters have flicks while sans serif do not

45
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What are spot colours?

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Pre-mixed colours used in printing

46
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What is a strap line?

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Catchy or memorable sub-heading used to draw the readers attention

47
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What is a sub heading?

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Larger than body-text, smaller than the heading

48
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What is text justification?

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How the text is aligned in the frame

49
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What is text wrap?

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Text wraps around the outline shape of an image

50
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What is tiff?

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Tagged image file format: industrial format used in commercial printing

51
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What is tracking?

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Adjusting the spacing between letters to fit a space

52
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What is transparency?

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See through colours fills or images

53
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What are typeface and fonts?

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Different families and styles of texts

54
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What is an underline?

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Underline text for emphasis

55
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What is a vector graphics?

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A scalable computer generated graphics made of lines, shapes and colour fills

56
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What is white space?

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Blank spaced left in a layout to rest the eye and aid compisition

57
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What is a widow/orphan?

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Word at the top of a column hat should be at the foot of the previous column

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