| Back matter |
The pages after the main body of text,
may include endnotes, bibliography, etc. |
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| Bleed
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If you have an image or block of colour that
you would like to print to the edge of your book,
this will need to be larger or flow over the margin
of your page to avoid any white space appearing
at the very edge. It will then be trimmed. The image
is said to “bleed” and the part that
is trimmed is the “bleed” |
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| CMYK |
Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow, Black, the
four colours used for printing |
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| Coated paper |
Paper with a clay or other coating applied to
one or both sides is coated paper. The coating can
be dull, gloss, matte, or other finishes. Coated
paper generally produces sharper, brighter images
and has better reflectivity than uncoated paper |
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| Copy |
The manuscript
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| CTP |
Computer To Print |
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| Docutech™ |
Small fully comprehensive electronic printing
press for on-demand printing and low print runs |
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| DPI |
Dots Per Inch (refers to resolution – sharpness
and clarity – of photographs, graphics, etc.).
The more dots per inch, the higher the resolution.
A common resolution for print images is 300 dots
per inch or 300dpi. |
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| DTP |
Desk Top Publishing |
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| Endnotes |
Notes documenting a text, and corresponding to
reference numbers in the text, placed at the end
of the book or at the end of the chapter |
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| EPS |
Encapsulated Postscript (standard for the
treatment of graphics)
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| Finish |
Surface characteristics or texture of paper. Finish
is also the general term for trimming, folding,
binding and other post-production processes of paper
handling and printing |
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| Folio |
Page number |
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| Font |
Typeface |
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| Footnotes |
Notes documenting a text, and corresponding to
reference numbers in the text, placed at the end
of the page on which the note appears |
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| Front matter |
Printed material that appears at the front of
a book before the main body of text, e.g. half title
page, title page, credits page, usually numbered
using Roman numerals |
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| Galley |
The initial typeset version of a publication,
after editing but before final pagination. Authors
are given a chance to make final corrections to
these
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| GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format (standard for images,
photographs and graphics in the electronic version
of a publication, website, etc.) |
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| HTML |
Hyper-Text Mark-up Language. The programming language
used for writing web pages. Html pages can include
text, images, animation, video, sound, and more |
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| ISBN |
International Standard Book number. The 10-digit
number used by the book trade to catalogue and identify
books |
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| ISSN |
International Standard Serial Number. The 8-digit
number used to catalogue and identify periodicals
and journals both in print and on-line |
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| JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group (standard for
compression of graphics and photographs) |
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| Kerning |
The adjustment of space between pairs of letters
to make them more visually appealing. It is normally
applied to individual letter pairs in headlines
or other large type |
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| Leading |
Leading is the space between lines of text |
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| Pantone |
An international colour standard that can be duplicated
by printers using Pantone inks |
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| PDF |
Portable Document Format. The format used for
capturing published documents electronically so
that when posted electronically, they appear as
they would in print with all the formatting features
and graphics |
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| PPI |
Points Per Inch. Refers to the resolution of devices
such as digital cameras, scanners and monitors |
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| Print-run |
The number of printed copies |
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| Recto |
Right-hand page. (If numbered, always carried
an uneven page number) |
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| Reversed out |
Rather than printing text over a block of colour,
the text is imprinted into the colour |
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| Run-on |
Also known as overrun. The number of copies produced
over and above the requested print-run |
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| Saddle stitching |
A form of book binding, whereby pages are folded
over and stapled in the spine |
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| Screen |
A printing technique for printing shades of colour,
e.g. a screen is applied to make pink from red |
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| TIFF |
Tagged Image File Format (a standard for graphics
and pictures) |
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| Uncoated paper |
Paper that does not have any kind of coating
applied. Uncoated paper is available in many different
finishes, colours, and weights and is generally
more absorbent than coated papers |
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| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator. The address of a specific
web site or file on the Internet |
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| Verso |
Left-hand page. (If numbered, always carried an
even page number) |
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