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Pasteup: the process of preparing
mechanicals -- in traditional publishing, positioning
and pasting type and graphics on a board (and overlays).
In desktop publishing, page-assembly software enables
the user to do electronic pasteup.
Panning: A way of viewing specific
areas of a drawing that mimics the way you might
slide a piece of paper around on a desk
Path: The basic component from
which objects are constructed. A path can be open
(for example, a line) or closed (for example, a
circle), and it can be made up of a single line
or curve segment or many joined segments.
Pica: a measurement used in typography
for column widths and other space specifications
in a page layout. There are 12 points in a pica,
and approximately 6 picas to an inch.
Pixel (picture element): the smallest
unit that a device can address. Most often refers
to display monitors, a pixel being the smallest
spot of phosphor that can be lit up on the screen.
PMS (Pantone Matching System):
a standard color-matching system used by printers
and graphic designers for inks, papers, and other
materials. A PMS color is a standard color defined
by percentage mixtures of different primary inks.
Point: a measurement used in typography
for type size, leading, and other space specifications
in a page layout. There are 12 points in a pica,
and approximately 70 points to an inch.
Process Color System: With Process
color printing, four colors are used (Cyan, Magenta,
Yellow and Black) to reproduce a virtually unlimited
array of colors. With this color system, you can
have virtually unlimited colors in your logo and
not have to pay extra.
Pantone Color System: Pantone
colors are nothing but premixed inks, like premixed
paints at a paint shop. They are not blended combinations
of other colors like Process colors.
Posterization: for a halftone,
the reduction of the number of gray scales to produce
a high-contrast image.
Printer font: high-resolution
bitmaps or font outline masters used for the actual
laying down of the characters on the printed page,
as opposed to display on the screen.
Portable Document Format (.pdf files):
is a file format designed to preserve fonts, images,
graphics, and formatting of an original application
file. Using Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Acrobat
Exchange, a .pdf file can be viewed, shared, and
printed by PC, UNIX, and Macintosh users.
Portable Network Graphics file format (.png
files): is an excellent file format for
lossless, portable, and well-compressed storage
of raster images. It takes up a minimum amount of
disk space and can be easily read and exchanged
between computers. The PNG format provides a replacement
for the GIF format and can also replace many common
uses of the TIFF format.
Process color separation: in commercial
printing, used for reproduction of color photographs.
The various hues are created by superimposition
of halftone dots of the process colors: cyan (a
greenish blue), magenta (a purplish red), yellow,
and black.
Proportionally spaced type: a
typeface in which the set width (horizontal space)
of characters is variable, depending on the shape
of the character itself and the characters surrounding
it.
Pull quote: a brief phrase (not
necessarily an actual quotation) from the body text,
enlarged and set off from the text with rules, a
box, and/or a screen. It is from a part of the text
set previously, and is set in the middle of a paragraph,
to add emphasis and interest
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