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Acknowledgements

Against the grain

Author's alteration (AA)

Camera-ready copy

Character spacing

Color process printing

Color separation

Communication design

Desktop publishing (DTP)

Digital proofing

Direct digital color proof

Electronic publishing

Em dash (– or --)

Four-color process printing

Full-color printing

Fully justified

Grain direction

International standard book number (ISBN)

Manuscript (MS)

Mechanical separation

Monospaced type

Nonreproducing blue

Off-press proof

Offset printing

Online publishing

Pantone matching system (PMS)

Perfect binding

Preliminary matter

Print publishing

Process printing

Proportionally spaced type

Publisher (Microsoft)

Raised printing

Saddle-stitch binding

Side-stitch binding

Table of contents

Table of figures

Table of tables

Version control

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