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Natural Spread: Two facing pages in a book that are printed together within a flat. Because they are printed at the same time, photos that extend across the gutter of the yearbook should be placed within a natural spread. In saddlestitched books, one natural spread will appear in the center of the yearbook. In Smythe sewn books, each 16-page signature of the book will include a natural spread.

Original Design Covers: Cover designs that are created by the yearbook customer. Cover elements are adhered to a cover layout board and then reproduced in either one-, two-, or three-color or in full-color.

PDF: Portable Document Format. An Adobe® electronic document format that allows the distribution and display of a document as originally designed and formatted without having the software application or fonts loaded on the viewing computer.

PMS Color: Pantone Matching System. An established set of standard colors commonly used among printers and publishers. Printers can purchase inks in PMS colors and the standards ensure consistency between batches and press runs. All one-, two-, or three-color covers are printed using PMS colors.

PPI: Pixels Per Inch. A unit of measurement that describes the amount of data contained within a digital image.

Pagination: The specific arrangement of pages for the assembly of a printed book. Page arrangement vary according to how a book is bound (saddlestitch or Smythe sewn).

Perfect Bound: A soft cover yearbook with Smythe sewn binding.

Pica: A printer’s unit of measurement for length of lines and depth of type pages. Six picas equal approximately one inch.

Pixel: The smallest unit of data in a digital image (the little squares you see when you zoom in on a photo). Together, pixels constitute a digital image. A pixel contains information related to color and placement within the larger image.

Point: A printer’s unit of measurement used principally for designing type sizes. There are 12 points to a pica and 72 points to an inch.

Portrait: An individual photo of a student or staff member that is used in the portrait pages of the yearbook.

Process Color: Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Black. When these inks are applied together in various percentages, it is possible to create thousands of colors.

Proof: Mailed to schools or viewed as a PDF online, depending on the yearbook program, to ensure that the yearbook page will print as expected before going to press.

Publication Agreement: The agreement between a school customer and Lifetouch Publishing that indicates Lifetouch Publishing will publish the school’s yearbook. It includes yearbook program information, cover selection, deadlines, etc.

RGB: Red, Green, Blue. The color scheme used for color images on computer monitors.

Resolution: The number of pixels (picture elements) per unit of linear measurement (inch) on a computer monitor or the number of dots per inch in output form.

Reverse: Type that appears in white on a black or color background, or in a dark area of a photograph.

Rule: A solid colored straight line. The weight or thickness of the line is measured in points. May be used around a photo.