Package |
If you group together GN4 documents, images, audios, videos, stories etc ("archive" type of objects), that's called a "package". See also Group. |
Pad |
To make a story longer by using more words than are necessary. |
Page area |
The central screen region used for text, graphics, and images that are to be printed. Compare pasteboard area. |
Page break |
A control code that forces text to flow to the next page. Also called hard page. |
Paginate |
The act of making a page on a computer screen. |
Paint program |
An application for creating and manipulating bitmap graphics. |
Palette |
a/ The set of colors defined and available for use. b/ A small modeless dialog box (that stays open on screen and you can continue to process your content). |
Pantone Matching System |
A patented process for defining colors. Pantone colors (PMS) can be specified from a swatch book and then closely duplicated by a print shop from books that explain how to mix colors to match the numbered inks in the swatch books. |
Paragraph break |
Paragraph split. |
Paragraph grid |
(GN4) Function, which displays in Ted4 the required/allowed number of lines in paragraph (based on its style) and fitting status. |
Paragraph mark |
A type symbol used to denote the end of a paragraph. |
Paragraph spacing |
Space inserted above or below a paragraph. |
Parentheses |
Standard enclosing marks used to set off incidental passages. Called brackets in the UK. |
Pasteboard area |
The region outside the page area used for text, graphics, or images that are being prepared or waiting to be positioned on the page area. As the pasteboard is shared by all pages, it is useful for transferring elements between pages. |
Patent insides |
Name given to "ready-print" inside pages bought from syndicates by smaller papers. Also called boilerplate |
PCX |
Windows Paintbrush bitmap format. |
Portable Document Format. Adobe structured document format, based on the PostScript language, developed for maximum portability between computer platforms and output devices. |
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Period |
Terminal punctuation mark. Called full point in the UK. |
Perl |
Practical Extraction and Reporting Language is a script programming language that is similar in syntax to the C language and that includes a number of popular UNIX facilities such as sed, awk, and tr. |
Pica |
(1) 12-point type (2) unit of linear measurement equal to 1/6 of an inch (i.e., six picas equal one inch.) |
Pictorial |
A periodical in which images constitute an important feature |
Image cap |
An ornate initial cap combining text and graphic effects. For example, you can use a capital letter on top of a clipart border. |
Piece fraction |
See fractions. |
Pilcrow |
Official term for the "paragraph" symbol. |
Pin or pick |
Pin or pick a story, or a image, it means to slug it. In GN4, it means make a copy of a read-only original. |
Pix |
Abbreviation for images |
Pixel |
Image Element. A dot on a computer monitor screen; the smallest region whose display a monitor can vary. Monitor resolution is expressed in pixels per inch, and display area as horizontal by vertical pixels (e.g. 800 x 600). |
Plate |
A plate contains the image of one page and is installed onto the press |
Point |
A measurement used in the graphic arts to specify type sizes, line weights (widths) and trapping values. Equal to 1/72 of an inch. or 1/72.27 (PostScript point). |
Point size |
Traditional term for the height of the type body, measured from the highest ascender to the lowest descender (plus any extra white space to the descender line). Also called body size. |
Pool |
A certain number of reporters or one reporter who goes out and represents everyone else. For example, a high-interest court case, a presidential appearance or a concert may not have room for all the journalists who want to cover it, so the organizers may restrict coverage to a press pool. Pool coverage is usually shared with other media outlets. |
Porkchop |
Half-column image. Synonymous with thumbnail |
Portrait |
Vertical or tall orientation, the opposite of landscape format. |
Positive |
The opposite of a film negative. In a positive, light areas remain light and dark areas are dark. Resin coated (or bromide) paper is usually run as positive because it can be proofed more easily. Plates may be made from negatives or positives, but negatives are standard. |
PostScript |
A page description language developed by Adobe Systems and used to describe type and visual elements so they can be output on devices with PostScript interpreters. PostScript instructions are highly portable across a wide range of computer platforms and output devices. |
Posture |
The angle of stress of a typeface: roman (vertical stress), italic (oblique), backslant (oblique to left). |
PPP |
Point-to-Point Protocol. A convention for transmitting packet-switched data over computer networks, commonly used for Internet connections. |
Pre-date |
An edition issued before its announced date of publication |
Precede |
Material to be printed ahead of copy already set |
Prepress |
The process of getting a job ready for print. In the case of PC color publishing, this begins with readying a page layout for output at the service bureau. It ends when the job is on the press being printed. Prepress involves processes like camera work, stripping, and plate making. |
Preview mode |
A mode where GN4 applications can show a representation of the output as it will look when printed. |
Primary colors |
Cyan, magenta and yellow. These three colors when mixed together with black will produce a reasonable reproduction of all other colors. |
Process color |
A system of breaking down and producing all visible colors (in theory) in print. The process colors are cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. |
Proof |
A preliminary hard-copy. Used to catch mistakes and identify problems before going to press. |
Proofreader |
Person who reads pages and marks errors for correction |
Proportional spacing |
A method of spacing whereby each each character is spaced to accommodate the varying widths of letters or figures, so increasing readability. Books and magazines are set proportionally spaced, |
Publisher |
The chief executive and often the owner of a newspaper or other publishing firm |
Puff |
Editorialized, complimentary statement in a news story |
Pull quote |
A sentence excerpted from the body copy and emphasized with large type to draw the reader's attention to the page. Also called a breakout or blurb. |
Purging |
Deleting expired data, such as editions, images, text, wires. |
Put to bed |
Printer's term meaning all the pages of an edition are completed and the presses are ready to roll |