| A | B |
|---|
| To get your message across | The most important goal in desktop |
| Thumbnail | A rough sketch used in planning a layout design |
| Focus | An element used to attract the reader's attention |
| Whitespace | Background space with no text or graphics |
| 1/3 of a page | Approximate amount of white space your publication should have |
| Legibility | Ease with which individual characters are recognized |
| Symmetrical | Balancing similar elements equally on a page |
| Contrast | Difference in degrees of lightness and darkness on a page |
| Z pattern | The eyes moves when scanning a page |
| Planning | One of the most important steps in the desktop publishig process |
| Over design | It is important NOT to do this in desktop publishing |
| Consistency | Uniformity among design elements |
| Resolution | Fineness of detail in an image or text produced by a monitor or a printer |
| Live Preview | Shows a preview of how a feature affects a document as you hover over the choices |
| Less is Best | A good desktop publishing principle |
| To face the text | Graphics should be positioned |
| Typeface | A set of characters with a common design and shape |
| Font | Word refers to a typeface |
| Baseline | Type characters rest on an imaginary horizontal line |
| X-height | The height of the main body of the lowercase characters |
| Cap height | Distant between the baseline and the top of the capital letters |
| Ascenders | The parts of the lower case letters that rise above the x-height |
| Descenders | Parts of the characters that extend below the baseline |
| Serifs | Small strokes at the end of a character |
| Typewriter spacing | Same amount of character spacing for each character in a typeface |
| Proportional spacing | Varying the amount of space for each character in a typeface |
| Sans Serif | Characters without small strokes at the ends |
| Disorderly | An abundance of typefaces and typestyles within the same document is considered |
| Sans Serif | The best font to use for headings |
| Point | A vertical measurement (approximately 1/72 of an inch) |
| Serif | The most readable fonts when using small point sizes |
| Tab to the designated area | The best method to align text in a designated area when using proportional spacing |
| Luminescence | Brightness of a color |
| Kerning | Decreasing or increasing the horizontal space between specific character pairs |
| Em Dash | Dash that indicates a pause in speech |
| A more professional image | Printing your letterhead on high-quality paper presents |
| Click and begin typing anywhere, insert graphics, tables | Click and Type allows the user |
| Can be formatted, resized, dragged to any position | Text boxes |
| Nudging | Moving an object in small amounts using the arrow key |
| Anchor | A symbol that represents the connection between a text box and the nearest paragraph |
| Tracking | Equally increasing or decreasing the horizontall space between all characteres |
| Crop | To trim horizontal and vertical edges off a picture |
| Prints to the edge of the page | Bleed is when an element on a page |
| Grouping | Combining objects so that they can be treated as a single unit |
| Content controls | Individual controls that you can add and customize for use in templates, forms, and documents |
| Nudging | Moving items precisely with an arrow key |
| Drag in the opposite direction to reveal the image | If you crop too much off an image |
| Quick Parts | Reusable pieces of content are created and stored |
| Select objects, Arrange group, Click the appropriate button in the align commands | To align objects on a canvas |
| Tab key | To cycle forward through a stacked group |
