Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Stick-on type
French translation:
police de substitution (desktop publishing)
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rene_teews
Jan 20, 2004 00:16
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English term
Stick-on type
English to French
Tech/Engineering
Printing & Publishing
This is from a glossary related to desktop publishing:
greek
Stick-on type used by designers as a simulation of text to indicate positioning, usually when the actual text is not available. In desktop publishing programs, greek screen fonts simulate text in small point sizes.
greek
Stick-on type used by designers as a simulation of text to indicate positioning, usually when the actual text is not available. In desktop publishing programs, greek screen fonts simulate text in small point sizes.
Proposed translations
(French)
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Proposed translations
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Native in French
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Native in: French 
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police de substitution
... exemple, la police Verdana (valeur d'aspect de 0.58) avec une taille de police 14px spécifiée n'étant pas disponible, une police de substitution avec une ...
www.yoyodesign.org/doc/w3c/css2/fonts.html
or fonte de substitution:
"A l'ouverture, si le Reader ne trouve pas la bonne police, il se servira d'une fonte de substitution présente sur l'ordinateur sur lequel il est lu."
http://www.weblmi.com/articles_store/988_16/Article_view
This "stick-on type" refers to a font or typeface, though I wonder why it'd be a greek font, used for filler in the early stage of page layout. A well-known equivalent is the "lorem ipsum" filler text made of Latin: "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s,"
http://www.lipsum.com/
www.yoyodesign.org/doc/w3c/css2/fonts.html
or fonte de substitution:
"A l'ouverture, si le Reader ne trouve pas la bonne police, il se servira d'une fonte de substitution présente sur l'ordinateur sur lequel il est lu."
http://www.weblmi.com/articles_store/988_16/Article_view
This "stick-on type" refers to a font or typeface, though I wonder why it'd be a greek font, used for filler in the early stage of page layout. A well-known equivalent is the "lorem ipsum" filler text made of Latin: "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s,"
http://www.lipsum.com/
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