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Adobe InDesign Terms
Matching Adobe InDesign terms
Term | Definition |
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Commercial photographer | a career that involves taking pictures of subjects such as people, buildings or merchandise to be used in a variety of media |
Copyright laws | laws designed top protect intellectual property rights and provide potential monetary rewards for inventiveness and hard work |
Desktop publisher | a career that involves designing and creating the graphics that accompanies text as well as page layouts |
Fair use | a section of the U.S. copyright law that allows the use of copyrighted works in reporting news, conducting research, and teaching |
Freeware | software that is provided without charge |
Graphic designer | a career that involves designing or creating graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs |
Multimedia | a computer-based communication process that incorporates text, graphics, sound, animation and video |
Photographer | a person who takes photographs, either as a hobby or a profession |
Public domain | property rights that belong to the community at large, are unprotected by copyright or patent, and are subject to use by anyone |
Royalty-free | prepared material that can be used legally, without paying a fee to the artist, publishing company, etc; some royalty-free material is available at no cost, however, most |
Shareware | copyrighted software that is available free of charge on a trial basis |
Trademark | a name, symbol, or other device identifying a product; it is officially registered with the U.S. government and its use is legally restricted to its owner |
Videographer | a career involved in the production of video material |
Website developer | a career that involves designing, creating, and modifying websites |
Bold | font style that makes characters appear darker than the surrounding text |
Drop cap | the first letter in a story that is enlarged and lowered so the top of the letter is even with the first line of text and the base of the letter drops next to the rest of the paragraph |
Font | a family of alphabetic characters, numbers, punctuation marks and other symbols that share a consistent design; often used synonymously with typeface |
Font style | the appearance of type (e.g., bold and italics) |
Indent | a feature that sets a temporary left, right, or left and right margin for paragraph text |
Italics | printed in or using characters that slope to the right |
Kerning | the adjustment of space between pairs of letters to improve its appearance or alter its fit |
Leading | the space between lines of text |
Small cap | smaller uppercase letters that are about the same height as lowercase letters |
Decorative font | typefaces designed to attract attention; used in limited situations, mostly in large sizes for headlines or titles (also known as display font) |
Tracking | adjusting the spacing between words, phrases, and extended blocks of text |
Letterhead | the area on a sheet of stationery where the name, address and other information is printed |
PDF (Portable Document Format) | an extenstion for Adobe Acrobat reader files |