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j image

jaggies:
An undesirable condition in which the edges of an image or text have a stair-stepped, or jagged appearance.

J-card:
The printed cover stock that fits snugly inside a clear plastic cassette case.

jacket:
The paper outerwrap of a hardcover book. Also called a dust jacket or dust cover.

jobber:
An organization that buys books in large quantities for resale to retailers and libraries.

jog:
To align the edges of a pile of paper sheets so they form a neat stack.

JPEG:
Joint Photographic Experts Group, a sophisticated lossy compression technique for reducing the amount of data needed to describe a full-color, bitmap image.

jump:
To continue an article or story from one page to the next.

jump line:
A phrase indicating on what page a story is continued from or to.

justified:
Text in which both the right and left margins are aligned.

justify:
To set lines of text so that the left and right margins are aligned.

 
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