Idiom
paste up
Meaning
To paste (things) into position, especially in layout and page makeup.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Please paste up these photos on the poster board.”
“The designer had to paste up the final layout before sending it to the printer.”
“Before digital software became standard, editors would manually paste up columns of text and images onto large boards to create each page.”
Examples
simple
“Please paste up these photos on the poster board.”
contextual
“The designer had to paste up the final layout before sending it to the printer.”
complex
“Before digital software became standard, editors would manually paste up columns of text and images onto large boards to create each page.”
Key words
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