Short Subjects
Here's an alphabetical list of computer terms and very brief explanations that you may find helpful. Where applicable, tips articles have links to these short subjects.
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe PageMaker
Adobe Photoshop
Aladdin StuffIt!
Bit Depth
Bitmap Color Mode
Bitmap Image
BMP
CD-ROM Disks/Drives
CMYK Color Mode
Coated Paper Stock
Decorative Typefaces
Drum scans
Duotones & Duographs
Direct-to-Plate and Digital Printing
Engraving
EPS
Expert Font sets
Flatbed scans
Flexography Printing
Floppy disks
Fonts
Gigabytes
GIF
Grayscale Color Mode
Gravure/Rotogravure Printing
Halftone Screens
Hard Drives
Image-editing Programs
Imposition
Index Color Mode
Jaz Disks
JPEG
Kilobytes
Letterpress Printing
Macromedia Fireworks
Macromedia Flash
Megabytes
Microsoft® PowerPoint
Modern Typefaces
Moiré Patterns
Monitors
Native and Non-Native Files
Offset Lithography
Oldstyle Typefaces
Page-layout Programs
Paper Weight
PDF
Picas and Points
PICT
Pixels
PMS Color
Postscript
Postscript Fonts
Preflighting
Presentation Programs
Printer Fonts
QuarkXPress
RAM and ROM
Resolution
RGB Color Mode
Sans Serif Typefaces
Screen/Silkscreen Printing
Screen Fonts
Script Typefaces
Signatures & Spreads
Slab Serif Typefaces
Spot Color
Thermography
TIFF
Transport Media
Trapping
Tritones
TrueType Fonts
Uncoated Paper Stock
Varnishes
Vector Images
Vector-drawing Programs
Web Press
WMF
Word-processing Programs
Zip Disks