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GIF Graphics Interchange Format, an image format
used by CompuServe.
grayscale Shades of gray that represent light and dark
portions of an image. Color images can also be
converted to grayscale, where colors are
represented by various shades of gray.
handles The small squares at the corners of a selected
annotation that you click and drag to resize the
annotation.
Highlighter tool An Annotation tool that works in the same way as
a highlighter marker. This tool adds a colored,
transparent or opaque box over selected areas of a
page.
I-beam A pointer, shaped like a capital I, that you use
for entering or editing text.
import The process of opening a file created in a
different application so that it becomes a
PaperPort item.
item A page or a stack of pages on the PaperPort
Desktop.
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group, an
international standard for compressing digital
photographic images.
link A connection to an application or device that
you can use to send information from PaperPort
to other applications, such as e-mail, electronic
fax, and OCR links.