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Are there Leaders in your Landscape or Lines in your Lithography? Find out when you dig deep into the defintions, examples, and usage advice in this list of L words for desktop publishing. 
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Laid Finish
By machine but looks like handmade...
Contract Proof
A contract proof is not necessarily a specific class of proof - it's just the one that counts. Discover why.
Landscape
Long side up...
What is Laser Printing?
Laser printing helped to launch the desktop publishing revolution. Here's how it works.
Examples of Leaders
Dot leaders, also called tab leaders or leader tabs are rows of dots that help lead the reader from one bit of information to another across a page.
Leading
Leading (ledding) is the space between lines of type. Discover how it is measured and specified.
Leading Zero
A leading zero is a zero that leads a string of other numbers. But there's a little bit more to it than that. Explore leading zeroes in design and publishing.
Leaf
Not a plant leaf, this leaf is usually made of paper and is found in books, magazines, and other publications created using desktop publishing.
Leg
Give your fonts legs, or at least one specific character.
Letter Size
The usual size of paper for letters and letterhead, but not necessarily the same size everywhere.
Did You Know That Relief Printing is A Little Like Rubberstamping?
Learn what types of printing processes are known as relief printing and what relief printing means for desktop publishing.
Fine-tune Your Text With Some Kerning
Find out what kerning means (it's like letterspacing but there's more to it) and how to use it to fine-tune your text.
Defining Old Style, Lining, Proportional, and Tabular Figures
Depending on the font you may be able to pick and choose proportional or monospaced numbers that line up on the baseline or that mimic the look of text with ascenders and descenders.
Ligature
Combined letters used to make text more attractive or to create an old-fashioned look. Ligatures can be standard or discretionary in desktop publishing software.
Lightbox
A way to take pictures and a way to view pictures.
What Kind of Paper Has a Linen Finish?
Cloth-like in appearance, linen finish paper is a kind of embossed finish paper.
Does Your Paper Have Lignin?
What your printed documents to last longer? Use Less Lignin! What Lignin means and how it is used in desktop publishing.
Like-sidedness
More or less the same on both sides of the paper...
Line Definition and How to Use Them in Design
Connecting the dots, lines are a design element that can be decorative and serve specific purposes such as organization of page elements.
Old Style Figures
Numbers with descenders and ascenders that can be either proportional or tabular.
What Letters Have Links?
The link in a font. It's not the same as a link on a web page. And only a few letters might have it.
What is overset text?
Excess text you can't see in a text frame or table cell is known as overset or overflow text. It happens when your text frame is shorter than the text you put in it.
Offset Lithography
Learn how offset lithography printing works and common uses of offset printing or lithographic printing with respect to desktop publishing and commercial printing.
Local Guides
Guides on a specific page within a publication...
What Are the Different Types of Logo?
Word, symbol, or both that represents an organization or individual...
Local Printer
A local printer is usually connected directly to just a single computer.
Bowl
Bowl - The curved part of the character that encloses the circular or curved parts of some letters...
Loose Insert
A common advertising tool, loose inserts can take many forms and are typically delivered within the pages of a magazine or newspaper. Learn more.
Lorem ipsum
Beyond the actual words, learn how the lorem ipsum text is used in desktop publishing.
Lowercase
Those little letters of the alphabet...
LPI or lines per inch
Halftone resolution...
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