| AA |
Author's alteration |
| A-D |
Analog to digital |
| ADB |
Apple Desktop Bus |
| AFM |
Adobe Font Metrics |
| AFP |
AppleTalk Filing Protocol |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| APD |
Aldus Printer Description file |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASIC |
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
| AT |
Advanced Technology, as in PC/AT |
| ATM |
Adobe Type Manager |
| BDR |
Basic Density Range |
| BMP |
As in BitMaPped (PC file format) |
| BNC |
British National Connector |
| BPS |
Bits Per Second |
| CAD/CAM |
Computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing |
| CCD |
Charge-Coupled Device |
| CD |
Compact Disc |
| CDR |
Copy Density Range |
| CD-ROM |
Compact Disc Read-Only Memory |
| CEPS |
Color Electronic Prepress System |
| CGA |
Color Graphics Adapter |
| CGI |
Computer Graphics Interface |
| CGM |
Computer Graphics Metafile |
| CISC |
Complex Instruction Set Computing |
| CMOS |
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (semiconductor type) |
| CMS |
Color Management System |
| CMYK |
Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black |
| CPU |
Central processing unit |
| CRC |
Cyclical Redundancy check |
| CRT |
Cathode-Ray Tube |
| CT |
Continuous Tone |
| CT2T |
Continuous Tone to Ttape |
| DA |
Desk Accessory |
| DAT |
Digital Audio Tape |
| DCS |
Desktop Color Separation |
| DCT |
Discrete Cosine Transform |
| DDCP |
Direct-Digital Color Proof |
| DDES |
Digital Data Exchange Specifications |
| DHCP |
Dynamic Host Control Protocol |
| DIB |
Device Independent Bitmap |
| DMA |
Direct Memory Access |
| DOS |
Disk Operating System |
| DPI |
Dots Per Inch |
| DRAM |
Dynamic random-access memory |
| DSP |
Digital Signal Processor |
| DTP |
Desktop Publishing |
| DVD |
Digital Video Disk |
| DXF |
Drawing Interchange Format |
| EBCDIC |
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
| EDG |
Electronic Dot Generation |
| EEPROM |
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (see EPROM) |
| EGA |
Enhanced Graphics Adapter |
| EISA |
Extended Industry Standard Architecture |
| EPROM |
Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (see EEPROM) |
| EPS |
Encapsulated PostScript |
| ESDI |
Enhanced Small Device Interface |
| FDDI |
Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| FLOPS |
Floating-Point Operations Per Second |
| FOND |
Font Family Descriptor |
| FPU |
Floating-point unit |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| GATF |
Graphic Arts Technical Foundation |
| GB |
Gigabyte |
| GCR |
Gray Component Replacement |
| GCR |
Group Coded Recording |
| GEM |
Graphics Environment Manager |
| GIF |
Graphic Interchange Format-CompuServe |
| GKS |
Graphical Kernel System |
| GPIB |
General-Purpose Interface Bus |
| GPS |
Global Positioning Systems |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| H&J |
Hyphenation and justification |
| HADA |
High Availability Disk Array |
| HCL |
Hue, Chroma, and Luminance |
| HDTV |
High-Definition TeleVision |
| HGC |
Hercules Graphic Card |
| HPGL |
Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language |
| HSB |
Hue-Saturation-Brightness |
| HIS |
Hue-Intensity-Saturation |
| HLS |
Hue-Lightness-Saturation |
| HSV |
Hue-Saturation-Value |
| HTML |
Hyper Text Markup Language |
| Hz |
Hertz-frequency unit equal to one cycle per second, see also kHz, MHz |
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