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DTP: Desktop Publishing
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it-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Measure of points from top of ascenders to bottom of descenders
Type size
Logo
Spread
DTP
2. A design that relies on graphics only (no text) to convey the identity of the company. Brandmark symbol logos are generally the most difficult logos to imprint within the minds of customers.
Black space
Resolution of imagesetter
Brandmark symbol logo
Gutter
3. The design and use of typefaces as a means of visual communication
Lettermark logo
Typography
Halftone frequency for printer
Opacity
4. Software that is designed specifically for easily manipulating text and graphics together on a page; some examples of layout software are Microsoft Publisher - PageMaker - and InDesign
Lettermark logo
Selection tool
Repetition
Layout software
5. The area on the page that includes only text.
Anchor point
Gray space
DTP
Black space
6. Design elements that look different from surrounding features to create visual interest or specific focal points.
Contrast
Resolution of computer screen
Typography
Anchor point
7. An image composed of text and/or graphics used to identify a business or product. It is used so that the public will remember the company or product easily each time they see it.
Typography
Stress
Brandmark symbol logo
Logo
8. The purity of a hue or color.
Film scanners
Selection tool
Saturation
DTP
9. Coined the phrase Desktop Publishing and key producer of Aldus PageMaker.
DTP
Paul brainerd
Scanner types
Film scanners
10. The space between columns in a multiple-column document.
White space
Transition
Shade
Gutter
11. Variation in stroke weight
Proximity
Transition
Spread
Resolution of imagesetter
12. The consistent use of important design elements that are echoed - or repeated - in some way throughout the design.
Spread
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
Repetition
Layout software
13. Used to reference how dark the color is. For example - hunter is a shade of green. Shades are derived from a combination of hue and black.
Bowl
Collage
Shade
Contrast
14. The absence of text; the absence of images. White space is emptiness. It is negative space. But it's not wasted space. White space provides visual breathing room for the eye. It breaks up text and graphics. Add white space to make a page less cramped
White space
Shade
Spread
Raster graphic
15. A collection of assembled images.
Vector graphic
Resolution of computer screen
Collage
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
16. Using a personal computer and desktop publishing software to combine text and graphics together on a page for publication.
Tracking
DTP
Rule of thirds
Shade
17. A picture element - the smallest square of color in an image.
Transition
Lettermark logo
Typeface
Pixel
18. SPI
Input frequency of scanned image
Thread
Saturation
Tint
19. PPI
Iconic logotype
Shade
Resolution of computer screen
Mask
20. A set of pages viewed together - such as the two pages visible whenever you open a book or magazine. Every InDesign spread includes its own pasteboard - which is an area outside a page where you can store objects that aren't yet positioned on a page.
Typography
Spread
Collage
Brightness
21. The use of geometrical objects such as points - lines - curves - and shapes or polygon(s) - which are all based on mathematical expressions - to represent images in computer graphics.
Brightness
Vector graphic
Bowl
Path
22. Imaginary lines dividing the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically. You place important elements of your composition where these lines intersect.
Typeface
Gutter
Rule of thirds
Vector graphic
23. DPI
Resolution of imagesetter
Transition
Input frequency of scanned image
Brandmark symbol logo
24. The horizontal and vertical placement of objects in connection with other objects on a page.
Flatbed scanner
Thread
Paul brainerd
Alignment
25. A spot where you begin or end a line segment
Selection tool
Clipart
Rivers of white space
Anchor point
26. A design that uses a graphical symbol and the company name rendered in stylized type. This is probably the most widely used type of logo.
Iconic logotype
Spread
Wordmark logo
Thread
27. Lines extending from an anchor point; using the Direct Selection tool (hollow arrow) to push or pull the handles will change the shape of the curve.
Handles
Anchor point
Bowl
Resolution of computer screen
28. Tracking is the process of loosening or tightening a block of text. Kerning is the process of adding or subtracting space between specific pairs of characters.
Scanner types
Tracking
Spread
Vector graphic
29. The area on the page that includes only graphics.
Repetition
Rivers of white space
Black space
Flatbed scanner
30. The design principle stating that you group related items closely together.
Proximity
Typeface
Input frequency of scanned image
Halftone frequency for printer
31. The space within rounded letters such as b and d
Bowl
Pixel
Proximity
Handles
32. A single hue in a color palette that is expanded upon by adding two - three - or more tints (variations in lightness and saturation) of that color - to create a more balanced look. In desktop publishing using monochromatic colors is a technique used
Monochromatic
Opacity
Thread
Iconic logotype
33. The extent to which something blocks light. You can change the opacity of layers - filters - and effects so that more (or less) of the underlying image shows through.
DTP
Saturation
Opacity
Gutter
34. A graphic image made up of tiny colored squares (pixels) that work together to form an image.
White space
Brandmark symbol logo
Raster graphic
Stress
35. Common scanner - flat artwork on sheet of glass - scanning mechanism moves under it to capture image - reflective art
Bowl
Halftone frequency for printer
Flatbed scanner
Font
36. A feature that hides specific areas so that you can work on the part of the image that is not masked.
Path
Scanner types
Margin
Mask
37. Each time you click when using a selection tool or the pen tool an anchor point is created; each point is the beginning of a new line segment.
Type size
Paul brainerd
Shade
Anchor point
38. The strips of white space around the edge of the paper. Most word processors allow you to specify the widths of margins.
DTP
Tracking
Margin
Flatbed scanner
39. Flatbed - film scanner - drum scanner
Handles
Brightness
Typography
Scanner types
40. Used to select the entire object.
Selection tool
Thread
Iconic logotype
Alignment
41. An imaginary line through the thinnest parts of curved letters
Shade
Direct selection tool
Handles
Stress
42. Used to reference how light a color is.
Tint
Logo
Mask
Alignment
43. A design for a set of characters (letters - numbers - and punctuation marks)
Anchor point
Anchor point
Typeface
Resolution of imagesetter
44. Used to be highest quality scans - use photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs) instead of CCDs to capture gray lvls
Flatbed scanner
Drum scanners
DTP
Layout software
45. Allows a user to be able to see on a monitor exactly how the text and graphics will appear on the page before printing the final copy
Logo
Gray space
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
Alignment
46. A specific typeface combines with variations such as size - style spacing.
White space
Font
Drum scanners
Vector graphic
47. LPI
Film scanners
Handles
Halftone frequency for printer
Rivers of white space
48. The text in a frame can be independent of other frames - or it can flow between connected frames. To flow text between connected frames (also called text boxes) - you must first connect the frames. Connected frames can be on the same page or spread -
Thread
Film scanners
Halftone frequency for printer
Wordmark logo
49. A design that primarily uses stylized text for imagery - no graphics.
Wordmark logo
Direct selection tool
Rule of thirds
Proximity
50. A path consists of the general outline of an object. Paths can be open or closed and can be made up of a combination of straight and curved segments.
Clipart
Path
Tint
Rivers of white space