Sans serif
A typeface that has no serifs (small strokes at the end of main stroke of the character).
Scale
The means within a program to reduce or enlarge the amount of space an image will occupy. Some programs maintain the aspect ratio between width and height whilst scaling, thereby avoiding distortion.
Serif
A small cross stroke at the end of the main stroke of the letter.
Signature
A letter or figure printed on the first page of each section of a book and used as a guide when collating and binding.
Spine
The binding edge at the back of a book.
Style sheet
A collection of tags specifying page layout styles, paragraph settings and type specifications which can be set up by the user and saved for use in other documents. Some page makeup programs, such as Ventura, come with a set of style sheets.
Swatch
One of a series of solid-colored patches used as a sample when selecting color. A printed booklet of swatches is called a swatchbook. Swatch also refers to the colors contained in the Color Palette.
Stamping
Term for foil stamping.
Stock
The material to be printed.
Saturation
The color intensity of an image. An image high in saturation will appear to be very bright. An image low in saturation will appear to be duller and more neutral. An image without any saturation is also referred to as a grayscale image.
Search Engine
A search engines is a program that searches documents (i.e. web pages, which are HTML-documents) for specified keywords and returns the list of documents. A search engine has two parts, a spider and an indexer. The spider is the program that fetches the documents, and the indexer reads the documents and creates an index based on the words or ideas contained in each document.
Spider-Robot
A software program that search engines use which visits every site on the web, follows all of the links, and catalogs all of the text of every web page that (a) contains text, and (b) it is able to visit or crawl.
Skew
To slant an object vertically, horizontally, or both.
Spot color separation
For offset printing, separation of solid premixed ink colors (for example, green, brown, light blue, etc.); used when the areas to be colored are not adjacent. Spot color separations can be indicated on the tissue cover of the mechanical, or made with overlays.
Saddle stitch
The binding of booklets or other printed materials by stapling the pages on the folded spine; also called saddle wire.
Silky finish (matte)
A smooth, delicately dull finished paper.
Scoring
To impress paper with a rule for the purpose of making folding easier.
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