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Record 1 2016-08-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

The display of an entire page of a document, closely reproducing the appearance the page will have when it is printed.

OBS

The print preview function must be requested by the user, whereas WYSIWYG [what-you-see-is-what-you-get] provides a continual display of text as it will appear when printed.

OBS

print preview: term and definition standardized by ISO and the International Electrotechnical Commission; term standardized by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

Affichage d'une page entière d'un document de façon à reproduire l'aspect qu'aurait la page après l'impression.

OBS

La fonction de prévisualisation doit être demandée par l'utilisateur, alors que le mode tel écran - tel écrit permet d'afficher en permanence sur l'écran la réplique du texte tel qu'il sera imprimé.

OBS

prévisualisation : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO et la Commission électronique internationale; terme normalisé par l'Association canadienne de normalisation (CSA).

Spanish

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