DTP Terms

Question 1

What is word art?

Answer 1

Easily edited, stretched and shrunk text.

Question 2

What is bitmap?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is bleed?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is body text?

Answer 4

The main columns of reading text.

Question 5

What is a caption?

Answer 5

Text that explains a graphic.

Question 6

What is clip art?

Answer 6

Purpose-made images from a library.

Question 7

What is cmyk?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is a colour picker?

Answer 8

A tool that selects and matches colours exactly.

Question 9

What is colour swatch?

Answer 9

A ready made colour chart used for checking printed colours.

Question 10

What is a column?

Answer 10

Vertical, rectangular form that body text is contained in.

Question 11

What is a column rule?

Answer 11

A vertical line separating columns?

Question 12

What are crop marks?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What is cropping?

Answer 13

When you remove all or part of an images background.

Question 14

What is a drop cap?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What is a drop shadow?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What is DTP?

Answer 16

Desktop publishing, creating publications on a computer.

Question 17

What is a floating item?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What is flow text?

Answer 18

A line of text that follows a line or curve.

Question 19

What is a footer/folio?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What are frames?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What is grid and snap?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What are guidlines?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What is gutter?

Answer 23

A narrow space separating columns?

Question 24

What are handles?

Answer 24

Means of re-shaping and re-sizing frames.

Question 25

What is a header?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What is a title/heading?

Answer 26

Large text that introduces the publication or article.

Question 27

What is hier archy?

Answer 27

Order of importance of text in a layout of publication.

Question 28

What is indent?

Answer 28

When the paragraph starts further in than the margin.

Question 29

What is a jpeg?

Answer 29

A file type commonly used for storing digital photographs.

Question 30

What is kerning?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What are layers?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

What is leading?

Answer 32

The vertical spacing between lines of text.

Question 33

What is offset lithography?

Answer 33

The main commercial mass production printing method.

Question 34

What is os paper?

Answer 34

Oversized paper that is trimmed to size after printing.

Question 35

What is pantone?

Answer 35

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

Question 36

What is a pdf?

Answer 36

A portable document file used for commercial printing and digital documents

Question 37

What is a PNG?

Answer 37

An image file that comes with a transparent document

Question 38

What is a pull quote?

Answer 38

Catchy or controversial comment pulled from the body text and enlarged

Question 39

What is pre-flight?

Answer 39

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

Question 40

What are registration marks?

Answer 40

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

Question 41

What is reverse?

Answer 41

Converting black text to white

Question 42

What is RGB?

Answer 42

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

Question 43

What is rotating?

Answer 43

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

Question 44

What is sand serif and serif?

Answer 44

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

Question 45

What are spot colours?

Answer 45

Pre-mixed colours used in printing

Question 46

What is a strap line?

Answer 46

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

Question 47

What is a sub heading?

Answer 47

Larger than body-text, smaller than the heading

Question 48

What is text justification?

Answer 48

How the text is aligned in the frame

Question 49

What is text wrap?

Answer 49

Text wraps around the outline shape of an image

Question 50

What is tiff?

Answer 50

Tagged image file format: industrial format used in commercial printing

Question 51

What is tracking?

Answer 51

Adjusting the spacing between letters to fit a space

Question 52

What is transparency?

Answer 52

See through colours fills or images

Question 53

What are typeface and fonts?

Answer 53

Different families and styles of texts

Question 54

What is an underline?

Answer 54

Underline text for emphasis

Question 55

What is a vector graphics?

Answer 55

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

Question 56

What is white space?

Answer 56

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

Question 57

What is a widow/orphan?

Answer 57

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