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| Alignment | placement of text between left and right margin |
| Art | Illustrations and photographs used to convey meaning and add appeal |
| Autoflow | text flows continuously from one column or page to the next |
| Watermark | A semitransparent image in the background of printed material |
| Bitmap | dot-by-dot representation of an orginal grqaphic image |
| Body text (copy) | text that makes up the body of a publication |
| Jumpline | Line at the end of a continuing article that tells readers which page to refer to for the rest of the article |
| Bullet | character or symbol that appears in front of each item in a list |
| Bleed | A print effect in which layout, type, or pictures appear to run off the edge of a page |
| Character | a single letter in a typeface |
| clip art | a ready made electronic drawing |
| CMYK | Percentage of the colors cyan, magenta, yellow, and black |
| Balloon | Circle or bubble enclosing copy in an illustration |
| column guides | nonprinting, vertical lines that appear on publication pages |
| Drop cap | An enlarged character at the beginning of a paragraph used to grab the reader's attention |
| Crop | remove or hide an unwanted portion of a graphic |
| Leading | Adjusting the space between lines |
| Pull-Quote | a small section of text "pulled out and quoted" in a larger font size |
| Desktop publishing | using a computer and software to produce high-quality, printed documents |
| Running headlines/footers | Running text at the top and/or botton of a document |
| Sidebar | A smaller self-contained story inside a larger one usually boxed with its own headline |
| Font | all alphanumeric characters in one typeface |
| Ascender | part of a lowercase letter than extends above the x-height |
| Format | Settings applied to a document that change the appearance |
| Gray scale | a series of shades ranging from black to white |
| Grid | a series of rule guides used to control the position of graphics and text in a publication |
| Gutter | the space between two columns |
| Layering | Process of positioning one element, text or graphic, over another element in a document |
| Control palette | On-screen window containing shortcuts for formatting text and graphics |
| Justify | text alignment in which all lines of text begin and end at both the left and right edge of a text box |
| Kerning | adjusting the space between the characters |
| Pasteboard | Area outside the edge of the page that can be used to temporarily store text or graphics |
| Margin | an area between the edge of a page and the area of the page containing text |
| Master page | a nonprinting page that contains text and/or graphics that will appear on all pages |
| Monospaced | letter spacing in which all characters have the same width |
| Point | meaurement of the size of type (72 points to an inch) |
| Proportional spacing | letterspacing in which different characters have different widths |
| Reverse text | white text that appears against a black background |
| RGB | color model identifying red, green, and blue colors |
| Sans serif | typefaces in which the characters do not have serifs |
| Serif | small line or stroke that appears at the ends of characters in serif typeface |
| Skew | to slant a graphic object |
| Template | a publication from which other publications are created |
| Text box | a rectangular area withing a dialog box in which text is typed |
| Typography | using type to produce printed documents |
