greeking

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Definition of greeking in English English dictionary

The insertion of nonsense text to dummy layout of a document or demonstrate a type font

Present participle of greek

Gibberish used to take the place of real text for layout purposes

The use of random letters or marks to show the overall appearance of a printed page without showing the actual text Greeking is used when the page is displayed too small for text to be read such as in a Print Preview mode

Unreadable and meaningless text used to create the illusion of text in a specific area

Type set using random or Greek characters to simulate typeset text in a layout or comp

The act of representing text by dummy type

a software device where areas of gray are used to simulate lines of text One of desktop publishing's less clever methods of getting round the slowness of high resolution displays on the PC

The use of dummy text that looks like Greek script and is used to give an impression of the appearance of the finished document This is used to make it easy to judge the overall appearance of a document without being distracted by the meaning of the text