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| Desktop Publishing | creating professional quality printed documents that contain text and graphics using a desktop computer and software |
| Desktop Publishing Software | Software that allows you to create professional quality documents using a microcomputer |
| Desktop Publishing Cycle | The steps are Planning, Designing, Assembling, and Printing |
| Templates | – Predesigned formats for specific types of DTP documents |
| Publication | Any document produced in PageMaker. |
| Periodical | Publications that are produced on a regular basis such as magazines, newsletters, newspapers |
| Promotional | Publications that promote or make people aware of an event |
| Informational | Publications that provide information or facts about a topic |
| Stationary | Publications that introduce or promote communication among people |
| Instructional | Publications that train, educate or instruct |
| Presentation | Publications that provide visual aids such as overheads, posters, charts |
| Rulers | used to help size and align graphics and text on a page. |
| Menu Bar | Bar at the top of the screen that contains PageMaker menus. |
| Publication Page | the solid lined, boxed area in which you create and modify text and graphics to build a publication. |
| Master Pages | Nonprinting pages used for placing text and/or graphics that will appear on all pages of the publication |
| Margin Guides | Magenta colored boxes inside the page borders |
| Column Guides | Vertical lines that represent columns |
| Zero Point Marker | The point at which the zero marks on the rulers meet |
| Page Icons | Numbered rectangles that appear in the lower left corner of the publication window |
| Pasteboard | The white area surrounding and including the publication page |
| Scroll Bars | You use them to change what you see on the screen |
| Pointer Tool | Tool that selects, moves, and resizes objects |
| Cropping Tool | Tool that adjusts the borders of a graphic by eliminating unwanted portions |
| Constrained Line Tool | Tool that draws a straight line at an angle in increments of 45 degrees |
| Hand Tool | Tool that moves the view within the pages or checks hyperlinks |
| Zoom Tool | Tool that magnifies or reduces the page view |
| Frame Tools | Tools that use frames to create placeholders for text and graphics |
| Default Settings | Document settings that are in place when starting the PageMaker program |
| Portrait Orientation | The page is taller than it is wide |
| Landscape Orientation | The page is wider than it is tall |
| Camera Ready Copy | paper copy ready to be photographed for reproduction without further alteration |
| Place | Command used for importing a graphic or block of text into a PageMaker document |
| Resolution | Term used to describe image quality and clarity of a publication’s output. |
| Point | A unit of measurement for the height of text |
| .EPS | Encapsulated PostScript file. |
| .TIF | Tagged Image File Format |