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| Pasteboard | The work surface on the computer screen that surrounds the actual publication page. |
| Photo CD | A system used to store camera photographs on a compact disk. |
| Portrait | Page orientation (layout) that is taller than wide; vetical layout. |
| Printer drivers | Software that converts an application program's printing request into the language that the printer understands. |
| Proportional spacing | Character spacing based on the width of each character. |
| Publication | A page or collection of pages created by integrating text and graphics. |
| Publishing | The process of transferring your web pages to a web site. |
| Pull quotes | Phrases from an article that are enlarged and placed near the article to attract attentiion to the article. |
| Quicktime | A cross platform real-time video and multimedia data format. |
| Resolution | The sharpness of an image. |
| Reverse type | Text appears in white on a black or color background. |
| RGB color code | A list of extended color names and corresponding hexadecimal triplets supported by most web browsers. |
| River | White space formed from lines of copy containng poorly spaced words. |
| Rule | A term for a line in graphic design. |
| Sans serif | Typeface that does not contain serifs(curls). |
| Scaling an image | Changing the size of an image. |
| Serif | Typeface containing curls to pull the eye across text as it is being read. |
| Shading | The intensity of a color. |
| Sidebar | A related story that appears within a larger article, usually boxed and sometimes shaded. |
| Specifications sheet | Formatting instructions for laying aout a document. |