filmset

present singular third person filmsets · participle present filmsetting

1. To typeset by exposing type characters onto photographic film, which is then used to generate printing plates.

   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.

   2012, Peter Karow, Font Technology: Methods and Tools, →ISBN, page 194

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   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.

   1975, ADVANCES IN COMPUTERS - Volume 13, →ISBN, page 56

1. not comparableCreated using a process of filmsetting.

   But Private Angelo is considered to be Britain's first filmset commercially distributed book.

   1958, Books of the Month - Volume 73, page 3

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   To some extent the actual thickness of the filmset letters can be controlled to suit differing paper surfaces.

   2007, John Lewis, Typography: Design and Practice, →ISBN, page 107

plural filmsets

1. alternativeAlternative form of film set.

   Blood is one of the easiest things to arrange on a filmset.

   2012, William Boyd, Bamboo, →ISBN, page 449

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   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.

   2012, Michael Windover, Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility, →ISBN, page 153

   True enough, Spain has become a filmset to me, the whole of it barely more real than Fort Bravo itself.

   2014, Samantha Harvey, Dear Thief, →ISBN, page 194