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What is the term for the opposite of "bleed" in printing?
"Margin" is the term for the area inset from the trim to the content.
Another term possibly more related to bleed is "Safe area" (or similar). This is often smaller than any margins and is (similar ...
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Is there a general rule regarding font spacing?
It's called kerning, which is an additional spacing applied to specific pairs of characters1.
The aim is to have a perceived equal spacing between glyphs. Mathematically equal spacing based on the ...
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What is the term for the opposite of "bleed" in printing?
If what you mean is an area that is left (mostly) empty to prevent content from being flush to the edge of the medium, then margin is the world you are looking for.
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How can I place the product on a social media post better?
I, personally, won't never rely on the lower left corner of an advertisement to convey anything. It's a dead zone, easily forgotten or overlooked by the viewer.
I, perhaps mistakenly, get the feeling ...
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How to determine or calculate the correct amount of whitespace around a logo?
There is no formula for calculating what the clear space should be. It's entirely a matter of preference for whoever is designing the logo and/or style guide for the use of said logo.
For instance, ...
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Usage of blank space in trade banner and text-positioning
This is merely my opinion... take it all with a grain of salt.
Realize that I know nothing about your company, it's audience, the target market, the nature of the trade show. What you sell, what you ...
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SVG file excessive white space
Select All (Cmd/Ctrl A)
Object > Artboards > Fit to Artwork Bounds
File > Save As
Format: SVG
This sets the origin to: x="0px" y="0px"
The viewBox to: "0 0 [Your image's width] [Your image's height] ...
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Usage of blank space in trade banner and text-positioning
Claustrophobic text:
I think your current issue is that this text is too similar to the text below. It's a tad bigger but otherwise same color, same weight. I would try to increase the differences so ...
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(Illustrator) Extra white space when exporting to PNG
When exporting as PNG make sure you check the box which says "Use Artboards"
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What exactly is white space?
Looking at any design, be it a website, flyer, brochure, poster, anything on paper or on screen, whitespace is literally what the name says: all the unoccupied space surrounding everything else on the ...
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How does unobviously uneven spaces between words in justified text affect reading?
It's not really about legibility. The text can be understood whether it's justified or not. The issue, as I see it, is about readability - how easy it is to read the text, how much effort must the ...
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How are the spaces done in France for ? ! : ; « » in a real-life work-flow?
In my experience, most french speaking people simply insert a space. It's a pain, but this is what most are used to.
The result is that they are not very picky on the width of the space, but some ...
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How are the spaces done in France for ? ! : ; « » in a real-life work-flow?
I have this client and we typeset multiple brochures each month in 15+ languges (French included) and each language is translated from English by a professional translator. For the French layer, i've ...
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How are the spaces done in France for ? ! : ; « » in a real-life work-flow?
I use InDesign so cannot speak for Scribus but the shortcut for a 1/8em space in InDesign (non-breaking by default) is cmd+option+shift+m or ctrl+alt+shift+m. Some people simply do a find/change and ...
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InDesign: how to adjust table spacing
You need to study this part of the ID interface, especially the "Cell Height" (which forces your rows to be taller) and "Top/Bottom Cell Insets" (same result, but by increasing ...
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Trimming AI file white space
If anyone wants to perform the action in Adobe Illustrator CC 2017.
Menu:
Object > Artboards > Fit to Artwork Bounds
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Tips for Magazine Cover?
The other two answers are very good.
I'd like to add that the "IMP" looks slightly shifted to the left compares to the "ART". This is mainly due to the whiteapace in the P of IMP and the A of ART.
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How do magazines and newspapers allocate ad space to perfectly fill each issue?
Newspapers and magazines both require advertising space to be booked ahead of time to allow them to plan the layout of the adds. Sometimes only a day or two in the case of a daily newspaper, but more ...
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How can I export an Illustrator JPEG - PNG while keeping the whitespace?
If Exporting, tick the Use Artboards box in the Export dialog window and select the artboard number you want to export (or all).
If using Save For Web, tick Clip to Artboard in the Save for Web ...
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Multiple whitespace characters in XML for InDesign
The “Ignore White Space” setting will get rid of any spaces surrounding closing/opening tags and any trailing spaces before closing tags as leading spaces after opening tags. Choosing to ignore white ...
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How to create equal border size around objects for after cutting out
If you create a shape around your voucher with no fill and no stroke, and group it with your voucher artwork, then you could enable snapping to place copies in the right position. There's no need to ...
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Photoshop. How to remove all white space, background + unenclosed space
You really don't need to remove the white in that image.
All you need to do is change the Layer Blending Mode to Multiply. Since it's a black and white layer, using Multiply will merely make the black ...
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Is there a specific term for horizontal gutters?
Short answer
I would use "row spacing".
Long answer
As JDB mentioned, I too would rather use web-related terms as opposed to trying to import typesetting terms from the (fascinating) printed ...
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(Illustrator) Extra white space when exporting to PNG
Two ideas:
Change to View > Outline Mode. Do you see anything as outlined?
What happens if you Select All; open Artboard Options; change the Preset to Fit to Selected Art? Then try Export > Save for ...
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Fluid shape resize in Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign
You can manually redistribute the spacing in a few clicks easily enough:
That will move objects to adjust the spacing though so that's not ideal.
Other than that your best option is probably to use ...
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Tips for Magazine Cover?
Not sure why anyone would bother answering if you've already chosen what you see as the "correct" answer :) You might do better to wait a bit before hitting that "correct" button so quickly. Anyway.......
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Usage of blank space in trade banner and text-positioning
I would
center-align all text content
make the logo, main headline and website address 15% smaller, which would leave just about the right amount of whitespace around the edges
move the website ...
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Should a footnote (superscript number) directly follow the word?
This is already in the comments, but to answer this, I regularly and consistently use thin/hair spaces before footnote numbers, to separate these a bit. Without these thin/hair spaces added, footnotes ...
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