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pagination
[‚paj·ə′nā·shən] (graphic arts)
The art of planning page format to allow sequence page numbering.
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pagination
(1) Page numbering.
(2) Laying out printed pages, which includes page numbers, margins, tabs, headers, footers and columns. The term generally refers to printing books and long manuscripts rather than ads and brochures with only a few pages. See paginated and page layout program.Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Pagination
the consecutive numbering of the pages of a printed work, indicated by page numbers located at the top or bottom of a page. Pagination also refers to the total number of pages in a printed work, including such material as maps and appendixes.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Designed to quickly
paginate classified sections of any size, works with predefined placement criteria and is used with a variety of front ends.
The Journal will select, translate, and
paginate the stories the Brazilian paper.
Writers e-mail Microsoft Word files from PCs to editors who
paginate on Macs in QuarkXPress.
"It has since served a base of operations as he reports, shoots photos, updates the Web site and
paginates a combined edition of the two newspapers."
Crucial to the system is its "reverse publishing" features that take data entered either by an advertiser or call center, and automatically builds the ad on the Web and
paginates the print ad through Quark.
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