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cdes282 exam1

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Imagesetters   postscript-driven, uses fast-spinning mirrors, and laser beams. Photographic exposure combined with very high resolution. Exposes light onto film , which in turn is used to expose light onto a printing plate.  
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Adding lead   thin strips of metal inserted between rows of words  
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Leading   the distance between one line of type and the one above or below it  
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Bounding box   the space each letter takes up on a printed page  
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Side bearing   the space between the character image itself and the of the bounding box  
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The essence of typesetting is   regulating the size of the spaces between printed letters to control the balance and rhythm between black and white  
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Type color   the blackness or whitness/ density you see when viewing a page  
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Majuscules   capital letters, upper case  
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Miniscule   small letters , lower case  
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Remington   first typewriter  
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Escapement   the movement of paper in a typewriter from side to side  
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Justification   spreading the line to its maximum allowable length  
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Linecasting   print a line of letters at once  
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Font   term that comes from an early French word meaning “molding” or “casting”  
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Matrices   molds of type  
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Letterpress   a printing press which uses matrices  
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Type high   the raised area of a matrice which receives ink  
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Recessed areas   below type-high, read as blank space  
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“offset”   printed  
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Offset litho   double printing, photographic process which allows the plate to be right reading, same as the final image  
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Image setters   laser printers which render artwork as type  
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Vectorbased   objects defined by vectors  
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Vectors   outlines or paths  
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Bitmaps   images drawn dot for dot  
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Raster   “rake”  
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Resolution   the number of apparent dots per inch or centimeter  
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Bezier curves   the curves of characters  
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Pixels   dots  
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Grid fitting   character outlines are superimposed on a grid of pixels, then decided which pixels are to be imaged  
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Hints   program instructions  
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Typeset quality   above 1000 dpi  
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Variable dot size   reduces the jaggedness of type produced at modest resolutions  
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Modest resolutions   less than 1000dpi  
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Anti aliased   smoothed, grey pixels are added to jagged edges to make them appear less jagged  
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Typeface   a collection of characters designed to work together  
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Font   the physical thing, the description of the typeface used to image type The font is the cookie cutter, the typeface is the cookie  
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Em   the basis for a range of relative units of measurement who’s value are contextual (they depend on the size of the type they’re used in)  
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Em square   the upon which all the characters in a font are created  
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Baseline   invisible lines that letters sit on  
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Leading   line spacing  
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Mean line   the height of non-ascending lowercase letters  
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X height   line parallel to baseline where top of lowercase letters meet  
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Stress   variation in thickness  
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Serifs   finishing flourishes at the ends of character’s main strokes, where it flares out  
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Sans   without  
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Sans serifs   without serifs  
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Latins   wedged serif faces  
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Bitmap   array of dots  
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Alphanumeric   contains letters and numbers  
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Slug   a line of type. (molten metal is poured into mold  
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Galley   unbroken page of type, column of type  
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Linefeed   type is printed onto a page in a vertical column  
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Body   piece of material  
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Body clearance   extra space, to be sure ascenders do not reach off of a page  
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Cap height   height of capital letter  
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Ampersand   ‘and’ sign (&)  
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Special characters   ellipses, diphthongs, ligatures  
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Postscript   adobes patented page description language. Converts vector information into high resolution bitmaps for high quality rendering  
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Inkjet printers   microscopic dots of ink are sprayed onto paper at the rate of 300 to 1500 dpi. Lacks postscript, so type rendering isn’t completely accurate  
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Laser printers   postscript software installed, have limitations when imaging small type, appear bolder than they are  
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Imagesetters   postscript-driven, uses fast-spinning mirrors, and laser beams. Photographic exposure combined with very high resolution. Exposes light onto film , which in turn is used to expose light onto a printing plate.  
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