2p8’s comments in blue
1.1) DTP, or Layout programs (e.g. QuarkXPress or InDesign) are designed from the ground up to deal with the massive undertaking of dealing with hi-res images, typography, illustrative art, indexing, color separations, and actually laying out of elements in a click-and-move sort of way… and much much more. MS Word, is WOEFULLY ill-suited for this sort of thing. Two completely different worlds. Like comparing a spoon to a blender. Nice! [+1]
1.2) Mac: Command-V Good! [+1]
1.3) Spray Mount? But I used a lot of different stuff for such a purpose. There were those old Hot Wax machines too… ahh the bad 'ol days. I was thinking of “rubber cement”, but you design guys tend to be creative. I wouldn’t be surprised if you used “warm spit” if you were low on supplies. [+1]
1.4) Letter: 8.5"x11"; Legal: Letter: 8.5"x14"; I’ll even give you tabloid: 11"x17" Nice! [+1.5 for that extra info]
1.5) What You See Is What You Get. Yes! [+1]
2.1) Vector is infinitely scalable, the lines of vector images (including fonts) are defined mathematically, so blow that sucker up to 10^20 power, and you got nice, clean edges. Bitmapped is resolution dependent, and is comprised of pixels. It’s only good when the image or font remains so small the naked eye can’t see the pixels. But you blow that bitch up, and you’ll start to see nothing but squares.Good! [+2]
2.2) InDesign Yup! [+2]
2.3) Portable Document Format Yup! [+2]
2.4) Serif and Sans Serif respectfully. Bingo! [+2]
2.5) Cheese… because, MMMMM… Cheese! Ha! I’m never gonna let you near my comic books, preserved with … cheese…but I digress. Good books are bound with “thread stitching” where pages are sewn in signatures. The advantage, besides longer durability, is that pages of stitched books lie flat. Good luck trying to get your typical paperback to do that.[-2]
3.1) “Caps” & I’ve always called it simply “lowercase”. I’ll take a stab at “Drops”?
This was a bad question. I was thinking “MAJESCULES” and “miniscules”, but those are terms in calligraphy.[+1 for CAPS, -2 for me asking this question.]
3.2 ffl, ffi, ae I wrote this post while sturmhauke posted his question about ligatures, so question this shouldn’t count [+0]
3.3) Hmm… Mass Printing? That’s not really a phrase. I was thinking of “inventing movable type for a printing press”, but he did contribute to making booking printing an industry (and probably put a lot of monks outta work). [+1]
3.4) Zip Discs (and drives). Although… SyQuest Discs was even more despicable IMHO. SyQuest was an abomination. (What kind of name is SyQuest, anyway?) [+3]
3.5) It’s thin and light? Not sure how those stock terms were derived. **Yeah, and you would get owned if you print your term papers on it. 24-pound paper makes nicer looking documents…
…Shucks. I was hoping you would get this right, because even I’m not exactly sure and wanted confirmation from someone in the industry. If I read the Wikipedia article correctly, it depends on the type of paper. In this case, 20-lb regular paper (bond) means that if you cut this paper into 17x22-inch sheets and made a stack of 500 sheets, that particular stack would weigh 20 pounds. [-3 for our combined ignorance]**
BONUS: Got me! This one I know. Buckram cloth is cloth that has been impregnated with plastic. Library books often have covers made of buckram. Buckram covers are often used to replace leather book covers because leather covers will deteriorate into what is known as “red rot”. (Leather covers will crumble into red flakes and mess up your clothes; I speak from personal experience) [+0]