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Terms Flashcards

1
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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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Screen Modes

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Normal, preview, bleed, slug and presentation

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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 of individual points on a path

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Bounding box

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A bounding box is a rectangle with eight section 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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16
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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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17
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Text threading

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When text flows between connected frames

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18
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Character 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: ex: times new Roman 12 point italic

20
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Typeface/type family

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A group of related fonts that’s include every variation ex: italic, bold, condensed…

21
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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.

22
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Leading

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The distance between baselines of lines of text in a paragraph

23
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Kerning

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The space adjustment between two type characters

24
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Tracking

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

25
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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

27
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Point size

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The unit in which a type face is measured

28
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Markup

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Directions for setting type

29
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Pica

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The unit of measurement for lines of type

30
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Overset text

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Indicated when the text frame is too small to display all of text

31
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Inset spacing

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The amount of spacing between the text and the text frame

32
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Glyphs panel

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Shows all of the variations and sunsets of a selected typeface

33
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Cap height

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

34
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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

36
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Hidden characters

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No printing characters such as those for spaces, tabs, ends of paragraphs

37
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Soft return

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A way to break a line of text without creating a new paragraph

38
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Hard return

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When you press enter key to create a new paragraph

39
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Space after

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Creates space at the end of a paragraph. Hard returns should not be used to create space.

40
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Raised cap

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When the first letter of a paragraph is enlarged and sits on the same baseline

41
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Master page

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A page layout that is created on one spread or page and then applied to a single or a range of document pages

42
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Eyedropper tool

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Allows you to transfer type attributes from one paragraph to another

43
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Placeholder text

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Used for deciding layout and formatting options before any real text content is used

44
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Tables

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A formatting frame made up of rows, columns, and cells. Tables are edited using the type tool

45
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Text wrap

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Is the process of flowing text around a graphic or shape

46
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Bleed

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When printed images goes right to the edge of the paper

Digital multimedia Design Final (2 decks)

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