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Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in an aesthetic form on paper or some other medium. Before the advent of desktop publishing, typesetting of printed material was produced in print shops by compositors working by hand, and later with machines. This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...
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Mass media is the term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). ...
Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a personal computer, page layout software and a printer to create publications on a small economic scale. ...
After centuries of innovation the basic principle of typesetting remains the same: the composition of glyphs into lines to form body matter, headings, captions and other pieces of text to make up a page image, and the printing or transfer of the page image onto paper and other media. The two disciplines are closely related. For example, in letterpress printing, ink spreads under the pressure of the press, and typesetters take this dynamic factor into account to achieve clean and legible results. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...
Letterpress printing is the oldest printing technique, in which a raised surface is inked and then pressed against a smooth substance to obtain an image in reverse. ...
Letterpress era
 Diagram of a cast metal sort - Main article: letterpress printing
During the letterpress era, with the invention of moveable type in Europe circa 1450, individual printing characters were made of blocks of type metal, and called sorts, assembled by hand for each page. In the diagram at right, the main parts: a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot. Wooden printing sorts had been in use for centuries and were combined with metal type. Image File history File links Metal_type. ...
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Letterpress printing is the oldest printing technique, in which a raised surface is inked and then pressed against a smooth substance to obtain an image in reverse. ...
Type metal is an alloy (usually lead, antimony, and tin) that is used in typesetting. ...
Diagram of a cast metal sort. ...
Look up Page in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Page may mean: In graphic design, typography, or printing: Page header, typography Page footer, typography Page (paper), a leaf or one side of a leaf, as of a book An apprentice, assistant or errand boy: Page (servant), a servant or knights...
Hand compositing was rendered obsolete by continuous casting or hot-metal typesetting machines such as the Linotype machine and Monotype at the end of the 19th century. The Linotype, invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler, enabled one machine operator to do the work of ten hand compositors. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Linotype. ...
Currently Monotype Imaging, Inc, a typesetting and typeface design company responsible for many developments in printing technology — in particular the Monotype machine which was the first fully mechanical typesetter — and the design and production of typefaces in the 19th and 20th centuries. ...
 A Specimen of typesetting by William Caslon, letter founder; from 1728 edition of Cyclopaedia. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2898x3807, 1794 KB)from: http://images. ...
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Digital era Computers excel at automatically typesetting documents. Character-by-character computer-aided phototypesetting (now known as imagesetting) replaced continuous casting machines in the 1980s, and was in turn rapidly rendered obsolete by fully digital systems employing a raster image processor to render an entire page to a single high-resolution digital image which is then photoset. The IBM ThinkCentre A Series is a popular line of computers. ...
Phototypesetting is a method of setting type with light (photo). ...
MacGyver - 1980s hero The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...
A raster image processor (RIP) is a component used in a printing system which produces a bitmap. ...
Render may refer to: Rendering (computer graphics), generating the pixels of an image based on a high-level description of its components XRender, or Render, an X Window System rendering extension Industrial rendering, the processing of waste animal parts to separate the fat from the bone and protein Kitchen rendering...
A digital image is a representation of a two-dimensional image as a finite set of digital values, called picture elements or pixels. ...
 Text typeset using digital page layout software. The source text is an extract from The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe In the late 1980s desktop publishing became available, starting with the Apple Macintosh. Programs like Adobe PageMaker and QuarkXPress popularized desktop publishing and enabled very fine control of typeset results. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (934x1213, 43 KB) Summary Extract from The House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe, set in Chianti BT Roman at 10 points font size, with o. ...
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Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a personal computer, page layout software and a printer to create publications on a small economic scale. ...
The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh, or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ...
PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program, introduced in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, initially for the Apple Macintosh but soon after also for the PC. It relies on Adobe Systems PostScript page description language. ...
QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing (page layout) application for Mac OS X and Windows, produced by Quark, Inc. ...
Before the 1980s practically all typesetting for publishers and advertisers was performed by specialist typesetting companies. These companies performed keyboarding, editing and production of paper or film output, and formed a large component of the graphic arts industry. By the year 2000, this industry segment had shrunk. Publishers were now capable of integrating typesetting and graphic design on their own in-house computers. Many found the cost of maintaining high standards of typographic design and technical skills made it more economical to out-source to a new breed of designer/typesetter. This article is about the year 2000. ...
The availability of cheap, or free, fonts made the conversion to do-it-yourself easier but also opened up a gap between skilled designers and amateurs. The advent of PostScript, supplemented by the PDF file format, provided a universal method of proofing designs and layouts, readable on major computer and operating systems. A font can mean: A member of a typeface family; or digital font - file format that encapsulates a typeface family in a database. ...
PostScript (PS) is a page description language and programming language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. ...
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SGML and XML systems The arrival of SGML/XML as the document model made other typesetting engines popular. Such engines include Penta, Miles 33 OASYS, Xyvision's XML Professional Publisher (XPP), FrameMaker, Advent 3B2 and InDesign, which allow the users to program their typesetting process around the SGML/XML with the help of scripting languages. Some of them provide attractive WYSIWYG interfaces with support for XML standards and Unicode to attract a wider spectrum of users. The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a metalanguage in which one can define markup languages for documents. ...
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ...
XML Professional Publisher (XPP) is a standards-based, high performance, content formatting and publishing application for the automatic composition, transformation, and rendering of XML content into high-quality output in PostScript and PDF format. ...
Adobe FrameMaker is a desktop publishing application that is popular for large documents. ...
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Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) application produced by Adobe Systems. ...
ÃWYSIWYG (pronounced //), is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product. ...
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troff and successors - Main article: Troff
During the mid-1970s Joseph Ossanna, working at Bell Laboratories, wrote the troff typesetting program to drive a Wang C/A/T phototypesetter owned by the Labs; it was later enhanced by Brian Kernighan to support output to different equipment such as laser printers and the like. While its use has fallen off, it is still included with a number of Unix and Unix-like systems and has been used to typeset a number of high-profile technical and computer books. Some versions, as well as a GNU workalike called groff, are now open source. Troff is a document processing system developed by AT&T for the Unix operating system. ...
Joseph F. Ossanna (December 10, 1928 - November 28, 1977), received his BSEE from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, in 1952. ...
Bell Telephone Laboratories or Bell Labs was originally the research and development arm of the United States Bell System, and was the premier corporate facility of its type, developing a range of revolutionary technologies from telephone switches to specialized coverings for telephone cables, to the transistor. ...
Phototypesetting is a method of setting type, rendered obsolete with the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing software, that uses a photographic process to generate columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper. ...
Brian W. Kernighan (pronounced Ker-ni-han; the g is silent; born 1942) is a computer scientist who worked at the Bell Labs and contributed to the design of the pioneering AWK and AMPL programming languages. ...
1993 Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 laser printer A laser printer is a common type of computer printer that reproduces high quality text and graphics on plain paper. ...
Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...
A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. ...
GNU (pronounced ) is a free software operating system consisting of a kernel, libraries, system tools, compilers and many end-user applications. ...
Groff is an anglicized form of the surname ‘Graf’ or ‘Graff’ and of predominantly Swiss and sometimes German origin. ...
Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
TeX - Main article: TeX
 Mathematical text typeset using TeX and the AMS Euler font. The TeX system, created by Donald E. Knuth, is another widespread and powerful automated typesetting system that has set high standards, especially for typesetting mathematics. Standard TeX does not provide a WYSIWYG interface. The TeX mascot, by Duane Bibby ΤΕΧ, written as TeX in plain text, is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. ...
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The TeX mascot, by Duane Bibby ΤΕΧ, written as TeX in plain text, is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. ...
Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. ...
Further reading A dingbat is an ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a printers ornament. The term supposedly originated as onomatopoeia in old style metal-type print shops, where extra space around text or illustrations would be filled by dinging an ornament into the space...
Hot metal typesetting (also called hot lead typesetting or simply hot type) is a method of creating a relief printing surface by injecting molten metal alloy into a matrix. ...
In typesetting, justification is the setting of text or images within a column or measure to align along both the left and right margin. ...
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more letterforms are written or printed as a unit. ...
Example of an orphan In typesetting, an orphan is a single word or short last line of a paragraph. ...
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The printing press is a mechanical device for printing many copies of a text on rectangular sheets of paper. ...
A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ...
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In typesetting, a widow appears if the first line of a paragraph is appearing at the bottom of a page with the remainder appearing on the following page. ...
In typesetting, a strut is an invisible character or element, used to ensure that a section has a minimum height, even if no other elements are included. ...
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