Publishing

Publishing

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

Industry: Printing & publishing

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Aspect ratio

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The ratio of width to height of a glyph, image, or object. See hint, proportional font, font, typography, typeface.

A periodical publication, usually paperbound, that typically contains essays, stories, poems, and illustrations on continuing or recurrent themes, with specific appeal to a categorised or specialised ...

Ties

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A structural connection, originally of hair but later of silk thread, joining design elements that span large open areas of a stencil (qv) for pattern stability and consistency.

Task

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An operating system concept that refers to the combination of a programme being executed, together with its housekeeping or bookkeeping information. Whenever a programme is executed, accountability ...

Ink roll-out

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Test proof of specified colour matched to actual paper as preliminary to job approval; also called "drawdown". Compare eye markers, colour control bar; see commercial match, samples.

Perfecting

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The process of printing on both sides of the paper during a single pressrun on either a sheet-fed or web press; especially useful on uncoated text-weight paper printing long copy with few ...

Stringer

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A part-time news correspondent covering a subject or locality for a periodical; probably derived from rank or status, as a "second-stringer". See freelance, deskman, writer, journalism.