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typesetting

Portuguese translation: composição tipográfica

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English term or phrase:typesetting
Portuguese translation:composição tipográfica
Entered by: LuzCardoso (X)

18:16 Jul 15, 2008
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Linguistics
English term or phrase: typesetting
Demand for accurate typesetting in other languages drives the company to open one office for this purpose - inhouse typesetting and proofreading by qualified nationals
LuzCardoso (X)
Brazil
Local time: 14:20
composição tipográfica
Explanation:
typeset=compor (p. imprimir).

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Note added at 21 mins (2008-07-15 18:37:53 GMT)
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Typesetting ñ se usa mais. É coisa do passado. A 'mancha' da página era feita de letras de chumbo, em linhas inteiriças; a cada correção do A. ou do revisor de provas, toda a linha tinha de ser refeita e novamente 'chumbada' ou fundida. Hoje os livros são impressos em offset. O typesetting agora é 'imagesetter'.
imagesetter:
A machine that generates output for the printing process, which is either a film-based paper that is photographed or the actual film for making the printing plates. Input comes from the keyboard, or via disk, tape or modem. Earlier machines handled only text and were called "phototypesetters." Most imagesetters today support the PostScript language.
Modern imagesetters use lasers to generate the image directly onto the film. Older machines passed light through a spinning font photomask, then through lenses that created the point size and onto film. Others created images on CRTs and exposed the film.
The typesetter was originally the only machine that could handle multiple fonts and text composition such as kerning. Today, desktop laser printers are used for many typesetting jobs and are quickly advancing in resolution, although the 1,270 and 2,540 dpi resolutions of the imagesetter combined with the high-quality of film still provide the finest printing for photographs and halftones.




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Note added at 46 mins (2008-07-15 19:02:35 GMT)
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typesetting
Setting of type for use in any of various printing processes. Type for printing, using woodblocks, was invented in China in the 11th century, and movable type using metal molds had appeared in Korea by the 13th century. It was reinvented in Europe in the 1450s by Johannes Gutenberg. For much of its history, typesetting and printing were often performed by the same person, who arranged movable type, one character at a time, in rows corresponding to the individual lines in the publication and operated the hand press to imprint the image on paper. Typesetting was revolutionized in the 1880s with the invention of the "hot-metal" processes: Linotype (1884), in which the lines of type were assembled by use of a typewriter-like keyboard and each line was cast as a single slug of molten metal, and Monotype (1887), which also used a keyboard but cast each character separately. Photocomposition — the composition of text directly on film or photosensitive paper using a rotating drum or disk with cutout type characters through which light could be directed onto the receiving surface — appeared in the early 20th century. By the late 20th century, computers and publishing software generated characters and handled most hyphenation, layout, and other page-makeup decisions, with the resulting electronic file, including any graphics, passed to a laser printer for paper or film reproduction.
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marco lessa (X)
Brazil
Local time: 14:20
Grading comment
É isso mesmo! Muito obrigada!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +4composição tipográfica
marco lessa (X)
4 +3composição
Ana Sofia Correia
4 +1dactilografar - compor
Ligia Dias Costa
4fotocomposição
Hander Heim
4tipografia/composição
Mary Palmer


  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
dactilografar - compor


Explanation:
type·set (tpst)
tr.v. type·set, type·set·ting, type·sets Printing
To set (written material) into type; compose.

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typesetter n.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


Ligia Dias Costa
Portugal
Local time: 18:20
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Roberto Cavalcanti: Muito bom, Lígia
20 mins
  -> Obrigada, Roberto
neutral  marco lessa (X): texto datilografado é typescript or typewritten.
25 mins
  -> Obrigada, Marco. Também sugeri "compor"
neutral  savaria (X): texto datilografado é typescript or typewritten text.
1 hr
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
composição


Explanation:
sug.

Ana Sofia Correia
Portugal
Local time: 18:20
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alexandra Gouveia
2 mins
  -> Obrigada Alexandra :)
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
15 mins
  -> Obrigada Teresa :)
agree  savaria (X)
1 hr
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
fotocomposição


Explanation:
See:

www.telelistas.net/1/38_br/224/371/39969/fotocomposicao.htm

Hander Heim
Brazil
Local time: 14:20
Works in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  marco lessa (X): Fotocomposição é imagesetter p. impressão em offset.
8 mins
neutral  Ligia Dias Costa: Entao, porquê o "agree"?
13 mins
agree  savaria (X)
1 hr
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
tipografia/composição


Explanation:
sug

Mary Palmer
United States
Local time: 14:20
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
composição tipográfica


Explanation:
typeset=compor (p. imprimir).

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Note added at 21 mins (2008-07-15 18:37:53 GMT)
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Typesetting ñ se usa mais. É coisa do passado. A 'mancha' da página era feita de letras de chumbo, em linhas inteiriças; a cada correção do A. ou do revisor de provas, toda a linha tinha de ser refeita e novamente 'chumbada' ou fundida. Hoje os livros são impressos em offset. O typesetting agora é 'imagesetter'.
imagesetter:
A machine that generates output for the printing process, which is either a film-based paper that is photographed or the actual film for making the printing plates. Input comes from the keyboard, or via disk, tape or modem. Earlier machines handled only text and were called "phototypesetters." Most imagesetters today support the PostScript language.
Modern imagesetters use lasers to generate the image directly onto the film. Older machines passed light through a spinning font photomask, then through lenses that created the point size and onto film. Others created images on CRTs and exposed the film.
The typesetter was originally the only machine that could handle multiple fonts and text composition such as kerning. Today, desktop laser printers are used for many typesetting jobs and are quickly advancing in resolution, although the 1,270 and 2,540 dpi resolutions of the imagesetter combined with the high-quality of film still provide the finest printing for photographs and halftones.




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Note added at 46 mins (2008-07-15 19:02:35 GMT)
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typesetting
Setting of type for use in any of various printing processes. Type for printing, using woodblocks, was invented in China in the 11th century, and movable type using metal molds had appeared in Korea by the 13th century. It was reinvented in Europe in the 1450s by Johannes Gutenberg. For much of its history, typesetting and printing were often performed by the same person, who arranged movable type, one character at a time, in rows corresponding to the individual lines in the publication and operated the hand press to imprint the image on paper. Typesetting was revolutionized in the 1880s with the invention of the "hot-metal" processes: Linotype (1884), in which the lines of type were assembled by use of a typewriter-like keyboard and each line was cast as a single slug of molten metal, and Monotype (1887), which also used a keyboard but cast each character separately. Photocomposition — the composition of text directly on film or photosensitive paper using a rotating drum or disk with cutout type characters through which light could be directed onto the receiving surface — appeared in the early 20th century. By the late 20th century, computers and publishing software generated characters and handled most hyphenation, layout, and other page-makeup decisions, with the resulting electronic file, including any graphics, passed to a laser printer for paper or film reproduction.


marco lessa (X)
Brazil
Local time: 14:20
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
É isso mesmo! Muito obrigada!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lúcia Leitão: Concordo
3 mins
  -> thanks.best.
agree  savaria (X)
1 hr
  -> thanks.best.
agree  JoaoMoreira
2 hrs
agree  Humberto Ribas
15 hrs
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