Publishing

Publishing

Publishing is the process of producing literature, music or information and making it available to the general public.

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Character count

Printing & publishing; Publishing

As the initial stage in typeset calculations, the number of characters (ie: letters, figures, signs, or spaces) in a line, paragraph, or other piece of copy; also called "unit count". See copyfit, ...

Plate

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Piece of paper, metal, plastic, or rubber carrying an image to be reproduced using a printing press. See digital plate, flat, burn, emulsion, fountain solution, screen, halftone, intaglio, ...

Headbox

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The dispenser or hopper for supplying pulp/furnish to a papermaking machine (fourdrinier). See deckle, wire.

X-height

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The standard height of the main body of a letter, excluding the ascenders and descenders. See baseline, x-line, body size, font, typeface.

Screen

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A glass plate on which two sets of intersecting lines have been etched, used to make halftones and colour builds. Also, a display component, computer monitor, video display terminal (VDT), or ...

Point-to-point protocol (PPP)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A protocol for communication between computers using TCP/IP, over standard telephone lines, ISDN, and other high-speed connections. PPP was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and ...