Galleys: in traditional publishing,
the type set in long columns, not laid out on a page.
In desktop publishing, galleys can be printed out
using a page-assembly program, for proofreading and
copyfitting purposes.
Greeked text: in page-assembly
programs, text that appears as gray bars approximating
the lines of type rather than actual characters.
This speeds up the amount of time it takes to draw
images on the screen.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format):
A graphic file format designed to use a minimum
of disk space and be easily read and exchanged between
computers. This format is commonly used to publish
images of 256 colors or less to the Internet.
Gray-scale image:a "deep"
bitmap that records with each dot its gray-scale
level. The impression of greenness is a function
of the size of the dot; a group of large dots looks
dark and a group of small dots looks light.
Gutter: In double-sided documents,
the combination of the inside margins of facing
pages; the gutter should be wide
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