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Page orientation, the Glossary

Page orientation is the way in which a rectangular page is oriented for normal viewing.^[1]

45 relations: Adobe PageMaker, Aspect ratio (image), Backspace, Book frontispiece, Contract, CPT Corporation, Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Flat-panel display, Fullscreen (aspect ratio), Hewlett-Packard, History of display technology, Horizon, IBM Displaywriter System, IBM Personal Computer, Mac (computer), MacUser (US edition), MAME, Mobile phone, Mr. Driller Drill Spirits, Multi-monitor, Nintendo DS, Oxford English Dictionary, Pac-Man, Page (paper), Page layout, Page printer, Pixel, Radius Inc., Shoot 'em up, Smartphone, Sonic Rush, Spreadsheet, Tablet computer, Vector monitor, Vectrex, Virtual desktop, Visual arts, Wang Laboratories, Widescreen, WonderSwan, Word processor, World Wide Web, WYSIWYG, Xerox Alto, 16:9 aspect ratio.
Electronic paper technology
Page layout

Adobe PageMaker

Adobe PageMaker (formerly Aldus PageMaker) is a desktop publishing computer program introduced in 1985 by the Aldus Corporation on the Apple Macintosh.

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Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.

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Backspace is the keyboard key that in typewriters originally pushed the carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems typically moves the display cursor one position backwards,The meaning of "backwards" depends on the direction of the text, and could get complicated in text involving several bidirectional categories.

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Book frontispiece

A frontispiece in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page, usually on the left-hand, or verso, page opposite the right-hand, or recto page of a book.

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Contract

A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties.

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CPT Corporation

CPT Corporation was founded in 1971 by Dean Scheff in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with co-founders James Wienhold and Richard Eichhorn.

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Donkey Kong (1981 video game)

is a 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo.

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Flat-panel display

A flat-panel display (FPD) is an electronic display used to display visual content such as text or images.

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Fullscreen (aspect ratio)

Fullscreen (or full screen) refers to the 4:3 (1.:1) aspect ratio of early standard television screens and computer monitors.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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History of display technology

Electrically operated display devices have developed from electromechanical systems for display of text, up to all-electronic devices capable of full-motion 3D color graphic displays.

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Horizon

The horizon is the apparent curve that separates the surface of a celestial body from its sky when viewed from the perspective of an observer on or near the surface of the relevant body.

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IBM Displaywriter System

The IBM 6580 Displaywriter System is a 16-bit microcomputer that was marketed and sold by IBM's Office Products Division primarily as a word processor.

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IBM Personal Computer

The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible ''de facto'' standard.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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MacUser (US edition)

MacUser was a monthly computer magazine published by Ziff Davis in the United States, while the UK edition was published by Dennis Publishing.

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MAME

MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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Mr. Driller Drill Spirits

is a 2004 puzzle video game developed and published by Namco for the Nintendo DS.

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Multi-monitor

Multi-monitor, also called multi-display and multi-head, is the use of multiple physical display devices, such as monitors, televisions, and projectors, in order to increase the area available for computer programs running on a single computer system.

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Nintendo DS

The (retroactively referred to as NDS or DS) is a 32-bit foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.

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Pac-Man

originally called Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and released by Namco for arcades.

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Page (paper)

A page is one side of a leaf (a sheet or half-sheet) of paper, parchment or other material (or electronic media) in a book, magazine, newspaper, or other collection of sheets, on which text or illustrations can be printed, written or drawn, to create documents. Page orientation and page (paper) are page layout.

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Page layout

In graphic design, page layout is the arrangement of visual elements on a page. Page orientation and page layout are Printing.

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Page printer

A page printer is a computer printer which processes and prints a whole page at a time, as opposed to printers which print one line or character at a time such as line printers and dot-matrix printers. Page orientation and page printer are Printing.

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Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device. Page orientation and pixel are digital imaging.

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Radius Inc.

Radius Inc. was an American computer hardware firm founded in May 1986 by Burrell Smith, Mike Boich, Matt Carter, Alain Rossmann and joined by other members of the original Macintosh team like Andy Hertzfeld.

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Shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs) are a sub-genre of action games.

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Smartphone

A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.

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Sonic Rush

is a 2005 platform game developed by Sonic Team and Dimps for the Nintendo DS as part of Sega's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series.

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Spreadsheet

A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form.

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Tablet computer

A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package.

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Vector monitor

A vector monitor, vector display, or calligraphic display is a display device used for computer graphics up through the 1970s.

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Vectrex

The Vectrex is a vector display-based home video game console - the only one ever designed and released for the home market, that was developed by Smith Engineering and manufactured and sold by General Consumer Electronics.

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Virtual desktop

In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the virtual space of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physical limits of the screen's display area through the use of software.

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Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, comics, design, crafts, and architecture.

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Wang Laboratories

Wang Laboratories was a US computer company founded in 1951 by An Wang and G. Y. Chu.

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Widescreen

Widescreen images are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) used in film, television and computer screens.

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WonderSwan

The is a handheld game console released in Japan by Bandai.

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Word processor

A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.

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WYSIWYG

In computing, WYSIWYG, an acronym for what you see is what you get, refers to software that allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.

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Xerox Alto

The Xerox Alto is a computer system developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in the 1970s.

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16:9 aspect ratio

16:9 is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_orientation

Also known as Display orientation, Display rotation, Graphics orientation, Image orientation, Landscape display, Landscape format, Landscape graphics, Landscape mode, Landscape monitor, Landscape orientation, Landscape rotation, Landscape video, Lcd rotation, Monitor orientation, Monitor rotation, Paper layout, Picture orientation, Pivot display, Portrait display, Portrait graphics, Portrait mode, Portrait monitor, Portrait orientation, Portrait rotation, Portrait video, Screen orientation, Screen rotation, Vertical orientation.

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Electronic paper technology

Page layout

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