refimprove date December 2010 A pica IPAc en icon p a k is a typographic unit of measure corresponding to 1 72 of its respective Foot length foot , and therefore to 1 6 of an inch . The pica contains 12 Point typography point units of measure. The pica originated around 1785, when Fran ois Ambrose L clat Didot Fran ois Ambroise Didot Didot 1730 1804 refined the typographic measures system created by Pierre Simon Fournier Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune 1712 1768 . He replaced the traditional measures of Cicero typography cic ro , Petit Roman, and Gros Text with ten point , twelve point , et cetera. To date, in printing these three pica measures are used The French pica of 12 Didot points also called Cicero typography cic ro generally is 12 0.376 4.512mm 0.177in . The American pica measure of 0.013837 ft. 1 72.27 ft. . Thus, a pica is 0.166044in. 4.2175mm The contemporary computer pica is 1 72 of the Foot unit Anglo Saxon compromise foot of 1959 , i.e. 4.2 font style text decoration overline 33 font mm or 0.1 font style text decoration overline 66 font in. Notably, Adobe Systems Adobe PostScript promoted the pica unit of measure that is the standard in contemporary printing, as in home computers and printers. Usually, pica measurements are represented with an upper case P with an upper right to lower left virgule slash starting in the upper right portion of the P and ending at the lower left of the upright portion of the P essentially drawing a virgule through a P . P Citation needed date February 2007 Likewise, points are represented with number of points before a lower case p , for example, 5p represents 5 points , and 6P2p represents 6 picas and 2 points , and 1P1 represents 13 points , which is converted to a mixed fraction of 1 pica and 1 point. Citation needed date February 2007 Publishing applications such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress represent pica measurements with whole number picas left of a lower case p , followed by the points number, ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 About style sheets for print and PDF publications information about the web style sheets computer language style sheet web development A Style sheet is a feature in desktop publishing programs that store and apply Text formatting formatting to text. Style sheets are a form of separation of presentation and content it creates a separate Abstraction computer science abstraction to keep the presentation isolated from the text data. Style sheets are a common feature in most popular desktop publishing and word processing programs, including Arbortext , Corel Ventura , Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign , Scribus , PageMaker , QuarkXPress and Microsoft Word , though they may be referred to using slightly different terminology. Individual styles are created by the user and may include a wide variety of commands that dictate how a selected portion of text is formatted Typeface or font boldface Boldfacing italics Italicizing underline Underlining Justification typesetting Justification left, right, center, justify, force justify Space before and after paragraphs Tab stop s and indentation Type size Leading Kerning Tracking typography Tracking Color Borders or strokes Superscript or subscript Dropcap s Letter case Strike through Outline font style In most programs with style sheets, there is a window or menu listing the style sheets the user has associated with the document. For example, a newspaper may have a style sheet for its story text called Body copy that sets the type at 10 point Nimrod with 11 point leading and justified alignment. Most programs allow users to name their own styles. Usually easy to remember names are used that describe what the style is used for. Common names might include headline, subhead and byline. To apply a style to a portion of text, most programs allow users to select the text with their Some programs split style sheets into two classes Paragraph and Character. Paragraph style sheets are applied to an entire paragrap ... more details
Infobox Software name Freeway logo File Freeway5.png 48px Freeway 5 icon screenshot File Freeway screenshot.png 250px Freeway screenshot caption Designing a website with Freeway Pro 5. developer Softpress Systems latest release version 5.5.7 latest release date release date 2011 05 16 operating system Mac OS X genre Internet publishing license proprietary software Proprietary website http www.softpress.com www.softpress.com Freeway originally Uniqorn is a WYSIWYG web design application for Mac OS X older versions also run under Mac OS 9 , developed by the English company Softpress Systems. There are two flavours of Freeway Pro and Express, both currently at version 5. Freeway Express has fewer features and is aimed more at the amateur web designer. Freeway is based on a pre Mac OS X print publishing application called Uniqorn , also developed by Softpress, but discontinued when Apple Computer Apple stopped supporting QuickDraw GX in Mac OS 8 . The philosophy behind Freeway is that an average user is able to design websites without having to deal with any code, using an interface very similar to that of Desktop publishing applications like QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign . Advanced procedures like connecting to a MySQL database using a scripting language like PHP are done through plug ins called Actions . Several Actions can be downloaded for free on several websites, but there are also commercial 3rd Party Actions, like the Auction Seller Suite from FreewayActions.com , which allows the creation of Ebay friendly HTML within the Freeway design interface. Many useful Actions are bundled with Freeway, the latest set from Softpress being a suite of Actions that lets the user create a shopping cart through the popular Mals e commerce system. Unlike most other WYSIWYG web design applications, Freeway produces syntactically valid HTML code and Cascading Style Sheets , making it usable in situations where valid HTML code is obligatory. For example, valid code is required by l ... more details
Refimprove date April 2007 Camera ready is a common term used in the commercial printing industry meaning that a document is, from a technical standpoint, ready to go to press, or be printed. In live television, camera ready refers to a person s presentability, such as a newsreader wearing a suit or an actress wearing appropriate make up. A person is not ready to be in front of a camera until they are camera ready. History The term camera ready was first used in the photo offset printing process, where the final layout of a document was attached to a mechanical or paste up . Then, a stat camera was used to photograph the mechanical, and the final offset printing plates were created from the camera s negative. In this system, a final paste up that needed no further changes or additions was ready to be photographed by the process camera and subsequently printed. This final document was camera ready. Present Usage In recent years, the use of paste ups has been steadily replaced by desktop publishing software, which allows users to create entire document layouts on the computer. In the meantime, many printers now use technology to take these digital files and create printing plates from them without use of a camera and negative. Despite this, the term camera ready continues to be used to signify that a document is ready to be made into a printing plate. In this new digital to plate system, a digital file is usually considered camera ready if it meets several conditions It is created with a software program commonly used in the printing industry, such as LaTeX , Adobe InDesign InDesign Adobe , Adobe Illustrator Illustrator Adobe , Macromedia Freehand Freehand Adobe Macromedia , QuarkXPress Quark XPress Quark, Inc , and exported in a commonly used file format, such as Encapsulated PostScript EPS , Portable Document Format PDF and sometimes Tagged Image File Format TIFF . JPEG images are usually considered not camera ready, as the Image Compression compression used in the ... more details
The Ghent PDF Workgroup ref http www.newsandtech.com issues 2002 09 02 int 09 02 enfocus.htm Newspapers and Technology on the foundation of the Ghent PDF Workgroup ref , also known as the GWG, is an international assembly of user associations, software vendors, End user end users and educational institutions from the publishing industry. The goal of the GWG is to establish and disseminate specifications for best practice s for the graphic arts industry at large. Since its inception in 2002, the GWG has created best practice guidelines for several different aspects of graphic arts workflows. On the theoretical side, the group has created specifications for PDF files used in different graphic arts market segment s, job tickets, color management setups and more. On the practical side those theoretical specifications were accompanied where possible with freely downloadable settings for popular desktop publishing applications such as Adobe InDesign , QuarkXPress , Enfocus PitStop Professional and more. The GWG has also published several white paper s and the Ghent Output Suite, used to test the ability of workflows to correctly handle PDF files in typical production workflows. History In 2002, industry associations representing printers and publishers in Belgium and the Netherlands started to standardize how PDF files should look when they were delivered for publication or print. During that process the desire grew to also make it easy to exchange PDF files across borders. In June 2002, the Ghent PDF Workgroup was founded to help make the standardization process easier and to come to one international set of standards. Enfocus Software, one of the leading quality control preflight vendors in graphic arts, was the driving force behind the birth of the Ghent PDF Workgroup. Industry associations joined the group in increasing numbers and two years after its inception the GWG was also opened up to other graphic arts software vendors. The work of the group also started to exp ... more details
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In offset printing , a spot color is any color generated by an ink pure or mixed that is printed using a single run . The widely spread offset printing process is composed of four spot colors Cyan , Magenta , Yellow , and Keyline Key black commonly referred to as CMYK . More advanced processes involve the use of six spot colors Hexachrome hexachromatic process , which add Orange colour Orange and Green to the process termed CMYKOG . The two additional spot colors are added to compensate for the ineffective reproduction of faint tints and shades tints using CMYK colors only. However, offset technicians around the world use the term spot color to mean any color generated by a non standard offset ink such as metallic , fluorescent , spot varnish, or custom hand mixed inks. When making a multi color print with a spot color process, every spot color needs its own lithographic film. All the areas of the same spot color are printed using the same film, hence, using the same lithographic plate . The dot gain , hence the screen angle and line frequency , of a spot color vary according to its intended purpose. Spot lamination and UV coatings are sometimes referred to as spot colors , as they share the characteristics of requiring a separate lithographic film and print run. Computer methods There are various methods to incorporate rather sophisticated patterns of spot colors in the final prepress artwork. Software applications such as Adobe InDesign , Adobe Illustrator , CorelDRAW , QuarkXPress and Scribus may generate spot colors as additional channels. Adobe Photoshop can also be used to generate soft edges widely known as feathered edges of spot colors. The dissolve effect provided by Adobe Photoshop layer patterns can be generated for any spot color. Optimizing usage Generally the cost and potential for problems for a print job increase as one adds more spot colors, due to the increased cost and complexity of added process inks and films, and requiring more runs per finish ... more details
unreferenced date April 2012 The following is a list of major desktop publishing software. A wide range of related software tools exist in this field, including many plug ins and tools related to the applications listed below. Several software directories provide more comprehensive listings of desktop publishing software, including VersionTracker and Tucows . Free Open source Scribus Passepartout for the X Window System LyX Fatpaint Cloud based Proprietary Adobe InDesign Adobe PageMaker , was Aldus Pagemaker supplanted by InDesign Corel Draw QuarkXPress FlippingBook software for creating online publications, magazines, photo albums and flip books with the real page turning effect. FrameMaker , now owned by Adobe Systems Adobe Greenstreet Publisher Home and Publisher Business InPage DTP which works with English Urdu, Arabic, Persian language Persian , Pashto etc. Interleaf QuickSilver iStudio Publisher Desktop publishing and design software for Mac OS X Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Publisher for Mac OS Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Microsoft Word 2008 This Word release contains a DTP mode Ovation software Ovation for RISC OS Pages iWork Pages , by Apple, Inc. PageStream , formerly known as Publishing Partner Prefis BookMachine Early 80s Publishing software that ran on the Apricot PC Xi output in CORA to Linotron 202. Prince XML , by YesLogic The Print Shop Print Shop , originally produced by Broderbund RagTime computer program RagTime PagePlus Serif PagePlus SVG Kit for Adobe Creative Suite is a plug in, which adds support of SVG files to Adobe InDesign Ventura Publisher , now owned by Corel and originally developed by Ventura Software UltraXML , XML Dynamic Publishing Solution Print MIS, Solution provider for the printing industry Business Builder for Print, Business management software for the print industry. Easy Flyer Creator Easy to use Desktop Publishing Software with built in templates for various industries http www.springpublisher.com SpringPublisher Free a ... more details
COI date October 2010 Infobox Newspaper name Earthweek image File Earthweek Logo.png 275px centre caption Earthweek logo type Environmental column format Graphics and text foundation January 2, 1988 ceased publication price owners Earth Environment Service publisher Through Universal Press Syndicate editor Steve Newman chiefeditor assoceditor staff language English political circulation Nearly 100 newspapers worldwide headquarters Pilot Point, Texas oclc ISSN website http www.earthweek.com Earthweek A Diary of the Planet is a Print syndication syndicated newspaper column created by Steve Newman. It is published weekly on various days by subscribing newspapers, and reports on events in Earth s natural history. The feature was the first fully paginated newspaper column to be distributed with placed graphics, thanks to the growing popularity of the Macintosh platform in newspaper graphics departments during the late 1980s. Due to the slow modem speeds common in 1988, early versions of Earthweek were limited to low resolution graphics. Subscribing newspapers maintained a library of individual icons and the base map, which were used by the wire frame of the Pagemaker document distributed to them each week. Earthweek is now created in QuarkXPress with Adobe Illustrator graphics, and is delivered as a complete, integrated package. A PDF version of the feature may be downloaded by readers in markets where Earthweek is not published. Typical Earthweek Content From man made occurrences to nature s own news, Earthweek provides a weekly overview of headline events affecting our planet cyclones, floods, brushfires, oil spills and climate change. Other stories are a bit more unusual monkey attacks, snake infestations and a bounty of phenomena as diverse as nature itself. Earthweek initial focused mainly on breaking weather news stories, along with a complement of items about volcanic eruptions, El Ni o outbreaks and unusual animal stories. That focus has widened in recent years t ... more details
primary sources date November 2011 Infobox software name InPage title InPage logo File InPageIcon.png File InPage3.05Splash.PNG 150px screenshot File Inpage 3.05.PNG 200px caption InPage 3.05 Unicode displaying the text Wikipedia in different fonts collapsible author Concept Software developer InPage Team released start date and age 1994 discontinued latest release version 3.0 latest release date Start date and age 2008 08 latest preview version latest preview date Start date and age YYYY MM DD frequently updated DO NOT include this parameter unless you know what it does programming language operating system Microsoft Windows platform size language English language English status genre Desktop publishing software license Proprietary software Proprietary website http www.inpage.com inpage.com InPage is a page layout software for languages such as Urdu , Persian language Persian , Pashto language Pashto and Arabic language Arabic under Microsoft Windows Windows which was first developed in 1994. It is primarily used for creating pages in the language of Urdu, using the Nasta liq script Nasta l q hanging calligraphic style of Arabic script. As a de facto standard Urdu publishing tool, InPage is widely used on PCs where the user wishes to create their documents in Urdu, using the authentic style of Nastaliq with a vast Typographical ligature ligature library more than 20,000 , while keeping the display of characters on screen WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get . Overall, this makes the on screen and printed results more faithful to hand written calligraphy than all or most other Urdu software on the market. This is achieved while keeping the operation easy, akin to that of earlier versions of standard English Desktop Publishing packages such as QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign . Before being used within InPage, the Noori style of Nastaliq, which was first created as a digital typeface font in 1981 through the collaboration of Mirza Ahmad Jamil TI as calligrapher ... more details
Infobox Person name Tim Gill image birth date Birth date and age 1953 10 18 birth place Hobart, Indiana United States USA residence Denver, Colorado United States USA nationality United States American known for education alma mater boards spouse Scott Miller ref http www.denverpost.com pennyparker ci 12135557 Parker Tim Gill ties the knot in Massachusetts ref website Tim Gill born October 18, 1953 is an American computer software entrepreneur and LGBT rights activist. Background Gill was born in Hobart, Indiana Hobart , Indiana . He attended Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colorado Jefferson County , Colorado , eventually studying computer science at University of Colorado at Boulder . Quark After jobs at Hewlett Packard and a consulting services firm, Gill started his company, Quark, Inc. , in 1981 with a 2,000 loan from his parents. ref name Gill Foundation profile of Gill Quark produced successful page layout software for the graphics market. Later, the company expanded into data storage devices, which brought Quark to the brink of bankruptcy and forced Gill to lay off half of his workforce Citation needed date January 2011 . With the introduction of Farhad Fred Ebrahimi as CEO in 1986 and the monumental success of QuarkXPress first introduced in 1987 , ref http www.answers.com topic quark inc?cat biz fin Answers.com profile of Quark, Inc. ref Gill became a multi millionaire. Gill announced in 2000 that he had sold his 50 interest in Quark, Inc., citing his growing involvement in his philanthropic and activist endeavors. ref name Exits Quark Rothenberg, Matthew. http news.zdnet.com 2100 9595 22 111439.html Founder Tim Gill exits Quark , ZDNet News, 25 October 2000. ref After Quark sale The passage of Romer v. Evans Colorado Amendment 2 , designed to prevent laws banning discrimination against gays, in 1992 prompted Gill to become involved in LGBT political action and he is now a leading funder in that movement. Based in Denver, Colorado Denver , his ... more details
QuarkXPress 3.32 and Adobe Photoshop 4. The editorial office was located in a small room ... new Windows PCs, running QuarkXPress 4.1, Adobe Photoshop 5 and Adobe Acrobat 5.0. ref Minutes of the Guild ..., QuarkXpress 4.1 was replaced by Adobe InDesign on all of the PCs in the Exepos office, which were ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2008 Pre flighting is a term used in the printing industry to describe the process of confirming that the digital files required for the printing process are all present, valid, correctly formatted, and of the desired type. The term originates from the pre flight checklist s used by pilots. The term was first used in a presentation at the Color Connections conference in 1990 by consultant Chuck Weger. Background In a common digital prepress workflow, a collection of computer files provided by clients will be translated from an application specific format such as Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress to a format that the raster image processor RIP can interpret. But before this rasterization occurs, workers in the prepress department confirm the incoming materials to make sure they are ready to be sent to the RIP. This is an important step because it prevents production delays caused by missing materials or improperly prepared materials. Once the incoming materials have passed the pre flight check, they are ready to be put into production and sent to the RIP. These intermediate formats are commonly called page description language s two common PDLs are Adobe Systems Adobe PostScript and Hewlett Packard Printer Command Language PCL . The RIP prepares the final raster image that will be printed directly as in desktop inkjet or laser printer laser printing , set to photographic Photographic film film or Photographic paper paper using an imagesetter , or transferred direct to plate . Depending on the hardware and software components and configurations, RIPs have unique problems rasterizing the image data contained in a PDL file. If there is a failure in rasterizing the image, it can be costly, as imagesetters, direct to plate systems, and high end inkjet printers can consume expensive supplies, can require extensive amounts of time to process complex image data, and require skilled labor to operate. The pre flight process The process of pre flighting a ... more details
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