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Midterm Flashcards

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Pasteboard

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area outside a page where you can store objects that aren’t yet positioned on a page

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Toolbox

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The Toolbox has tools for selecting, editing, creating page elements, tools for choosing type, shapes, lines, and gradients

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Panels

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Panels are used to organize commands and are Docked on the right side of the workspace.

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Dock

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dock is a collection of panels or panel groups displayed together

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Control Panel

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Gives you ways to control selected items or Objects and Docked above the Title Bar

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Selection Tool

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Allows you to select text and graphics frames, and work with an object using its bounding box.

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Direct Selection Tool

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Used to select the contents of a container or individual points on a path.

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Portrait Orientation

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Height is greater than the width

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Landscape Orientation

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Width is greater than the height

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Bounding Box

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A bounding box is a rectangle with eight selection handles that represents an object’s vertical and horizontal dimensions.

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Selection handles

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The eight small boxes at the corners and sides of the bounding Box.

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Frame

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A frame or path is a shape you draw or a container for text or graphics.

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Workspace

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Any arrangement of panels, bars, and windows that can be saved.

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Context menu

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context-sensitive menus display commands related to the active tool or selection

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Grabber hand

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Allows you to scroll through your document

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Rough layout

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The first basic layout used to make general choices about the structure of the layout

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Mono spaced typeface

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A typeface in which all of the letterf orms occupy the same amount of space

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Proportional typeface

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A typeface in which each character is given varying widths proportional to its size

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In port / Out port

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Indicates where text flows when text boxes are Threaded.

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Text Threading

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When text flows between connected frames.

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Character formatting mode

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Sets the options for formatting characters in the Control Panel

22
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Panel Paragraph formatting mode

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Sets the options for formatting paragraphs in the Control Panel

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Font

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A set of associated characters in a single size. eg.Times New Roman 12 point italic.

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Typeface/ Type family

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A group of related fonts that include every variation eg. Italic, Bold, Condensed, etc.

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Serif

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Type with the finishing stroke at the end of a letter

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Sans Serif

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Type without the finishing stroke.

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Type Style

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Variations in the thickness and stroke, such as light, bold, italic, that lend flexibility and emphasis in the appearance of characters constituting a typeface.

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Leading

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The distance between baselines of lines of text in a paragraph.

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Kerning

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The space adjustment between two type characters

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Tracking

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Adjusting the spacing across a word, line, or column of text.

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Baseline

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The baseline is the imaginary line upon which a line of text rests.

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Auto leading

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Sets the leading at 120% and will change as the font sizes go up or down.

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Absolute leading

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Is when the user sets the leading value and will not change as the font size is changed.

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Point size

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The unit in which a type face is measured.

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Markup

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Directions for setting type.

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Pica

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The unit of measurement for lines of type.

37
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Over set text

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Indicates when the text frame is too small to display all of text.

38
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Inset spacing

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The amount of spacing between the text and the text frame.

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Glyphs panel

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Shows all of the variations and subsets of a selected typeface.

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X-height

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The distance from the baseline to the top of lower case x.

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Mean line

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horizontal line at the x height

42
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Cap height

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The space from the baseline to the top of the capital letter.

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Ascender

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Parts of the letter that extend above the mean line.

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Descender

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Parts of the letter that extend below the baseline

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Ascente

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The distance from the baseline to the highest ascender.

46
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Hidden characters

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Nonprinting characters such as those for spaces, tabs, ends of paragraphs

Digital Multimedia Design MCDN 230 (2 decks)

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