PageMaker - One of the standards of the desktop publishing market. Adobe PageMaker is a professional product that is designed to output colour separations and produce high quality output. PageMaker was the pioneer desktop publishing programme for the Macintosh. It has now been superseded by Adobe InDesign, but is still in popular use. It is available for both Macintosh and PC platforms.
Paper Sizes:
‘A’ SERIES PAPER SIZES 'B' SERIES PAPER SIZES
A0 1189mm x 841mm B0 1414mm x 1000mm
A1 841mm x 594mm B1 1000mm x 707mm
A2 594mm x 420mm B2 707mm x 500mm
A3 420mm x 297mm B3 500mm x 353mm
A4 297mm x 210mm B4 353mm x 250mm
A5 210mm x 148mm B5 250mm x 176mm
A6 148mm x 105mm B6 176mm x 125mm
A7 105mm x 74mm B7 125mm x 88mm
PDF (Portable Document File) - A proprietary format for the transfer of designs across multiple computer platforms. PDF is a universal electronic file format, modelled after the Post Script language and is device and resolution independent. Documents in the PDF format can be viewed, navigated and printed (subject to Author defined constraints) from any computer regardless of the fonts or software programs used to create the original.
Perfect binding - A binding process whereby single sheets are stacked together, one edge (the binding edge) is then ground to create a rough surface, and adhesive is applied to that now-roughened edge. A cover is then wrapped around the pages to form a booklet, book or folder. Many books on your bookshelf are bound in this manner.
Photo CD - The system developed by Kodak for storing the images obtained through a digital camera onto a compact disc.
PhotoShop - Adobe’s premier photograph manipulation programme. PhotoShop is used to correct colours, and sharpen scans, and make great looking reproductions from not-so-great looking photographs.
Pica - A unit of measure equal to 12 points or one sixth of an inch.
Pixel depth - The amount of data used to create the coloured dots on a computer monitor.
Pixel - A corrupted abbreviation of ‘picture element’ (just as facsimile is frequently condensed to ‘fax’). These are the dots that form the picture on a monitor. The smaller the pixel, the more detailed the picture. A pixel is the smallest resolvable point of a raster image. It is the basic unit of digital imaging.
Plate – A thin object (plate) made of either metal or paper that is light sensitive and causes an image to be transferred to paper while on a printing press. The image is burned onto the plate by the use of high intensity light. The surface of the plate is treated or configured so that only the printing image is receptive to the ink that transfers to the printed object.
PMS (Pantone Matching System) - This is a system of colour formulae where we can reproduce over 1,000 different shades and colours by accurately mixing several ‘standard’ inks. We can print any colour listed in the Pantone Matching System so that you will get the exact colour you want.
Point - In measuring type, 1 point is 1/12 of a pica or 1/72 of an inch. In measuring heavy paper stock, 1 point is equivalent to 1/1000 of an inch. Thus 10-point stock is 10/1000 of an inch, or 0.010 inches thick.
Postscript - A page description language for medium- to high-resolution printing devices. Since Postscript images are made up of mathematical calculations, they can be resized and still maintain their quality unlike bitmap images. Postscript was developed by Adobe Systems Inc. to describe an image for printing. It handles both text and graphics. A PostScript file is a purely text-based description of a page.
pp (Printed page) - Describes the number of printed pages in a finished document .
Pre-flight - In digital prepress, the test used to evaluate or analyse every component needed to produce a printing job. Pre-flight confirms the type of disc being submitted, the colour gamut, colour breaks, and any art required (illustrations, photographs, etc.), plus layout files, screen fonts, printer fonts, EPS or TIFF files, laser proofs, page sizes, print driver, crop marks, etc.
Prepress - The processes performed on a printing job prior to its going to the press to be printed. Examples are typesetting, layout, scanning, etc.
Press Proof – A proof to indicate the appearance of a colour subject printed on a printing press.
Printing plate - A thin object (plate) made of either metal or paper that is light sensitive and causes an image to be transferred to paper while on a printing press. The image is burned onto the plate by the use of high intensity light. The surface of the plate is treated or configured so that only the printing image is receptive to the ink that transfers to the printed object.
Process colours - for four colour printing CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) that are used in producing full-colour images, such as colour photographs.
Proof - A method of checking for errors prior to printing a job. Normally, the proof is the last prepress operation and it consists of either a hard copy of the job to be printed or a computer-generated imaged of the job to be printed. A press-proof is used by printing-press operators to ensure the correctness of the finished product during the production of an order.
Publisher - A software package produced by Microsoft for simple office and home publishing.
Pulp - A mixture of wood and/or cotton fibres, chemicals and water which paper mills use to make paper.
