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Publishing

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

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Publishing

Solecism

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A nonstandard or ungrammatical usage (eg: flammable / inflammable / non-flammable); derived from the name of a city in Cilicia where a corrupt form of Attic Greek was spoken. Also, any error, ...

Wove finish

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A somewhat smooth or slightly patterned finish on bond paper. See paper coating.

Cocked-up initial

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An initial letter, usually printed at the beginning of the first paragraph of a chapter, which projects above the line of type on which it appears. Compare drop-cap; see initial, small-cap, rubric, ...

Active server page (ASP)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A specification (*.ASP) for a dynamically created webpage that utilises ActiveX scripting (usually VBscript or Jscript code). When a browser requests an ASP page, the web server generates a page with ...

Ex libris

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An inscription denoting "from the library of" before the ascription, as on a bookplate (qv).

Raster image processor

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Hardware, software, or both which prepares images for output in rasterized format (*.RIP) on the computer screen or printer.

Media kit

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Synonymous with press kit (qv), with the ostensible exception that a press kit does not include advertising rate information.

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