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| Ascender | The part of a letter that extends above the baseline. |
| Aspect ratio | Proportions of graphics. |
| Base font | The most common font that works for the printer. |
| Baseline | The imaginary line on which typed text rests. |
| Bitmap images | Images created in paint programs or through scanners. |
| Bleeding | Print that goes to the physical edge of a page. |
| Blending | A design effect created by varying shades that go from dark to light. |
| Bullets | Symbols used to draw attention to text in a document. |
| Charts | A pictorial representation of data used to explain and enhance word processing documents. |
| Color Matching Systems | Sets of professionally designed colors that can be modified and used in a presentation. |
| Cropping | Trimming an image in order to make it fit in a publication or to make the image more powerful in a publication. |
| Descender | The part of a letter that extends below the baseline. |
| Desktop Publishing Program | A program that allows you to manipulate text and graphics to create a variety of publication documents. |
| Dingbats | Small typographical ornaments used to accent text or to decorate designs. |
| Dithering | Blending colors to modify colors or produce new ones. |
| Drop Cap | A large capital letter at the beginning of a newspaper or magazine story. |
| Em | A typographical unit of measure equal to the width of a capital letter M. |
| En | A typographical unit of measure that is equal to half of an em. |
| Facing pages | Pages in a publication that lie side by side on the computer screen. |
