• Filmset

    Full definition of filmset

    Verb

    1. To typeset by exposing type characters onto photographic film, which is then used to generate printing plates.
      • 1975 , ADVANCES IN COMPUTERS - Volume 13 , These concordances have been filmset, a process by which material is composed on film guided by appropriate programs that sense in the input stream "escape codes" which indicate a change in type font, size, or special characters.
      • 2012 , Peter Karow , Font Technology: Methods and Tools , The electronic capabilities of today's new typesetting programs enable us to filmset type with optimum lines - comparable with the setting of Johannes Gutenberg's famous 42-line Bible.

    Adjective

    filmset

    1. Created using a process of filmsetting.
      • 1958 , Books of the Month - Volume 73 , But Private Angelo is considered to be Britain's first filmset commercially distributed book.
      • 2007, John Lewis , Typography: Design and Practice , To some extent the actual thickness of the filmset letters can be controlled to suit differing paper surfaces.

    Noun

    filmset

    (plural filmsets)
      • 2012 , William Boyd , Bamboo , Blood is one of the easiest things to arrange on a filmset.
      • 2012 , Michael Windover , Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility , Some of Peters's filmset designs, together with those for the store and for an ideal art centre, were put on display at Bullock's Wilshire not long after the store's opening.
      • 2014 , Samantha Harvey , Dear Thief , True enough, Spain has become a filmset to me, the whole of it barely more real than Fort Bravo itself.
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