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Dodge tool

The Photoshop Dodge tool is another digital version of a technique that is used in traditional photographic development. The Dodge tool selectively lightens an area of a photographic image. It essentially does the opposite of the Burn tool, in Photoshop or another image editor.

See also: Burn tool

Director

Macromedia Director is an application. It provides a a stage whereby elements, such as video graphics, animation and text can be assembled and produced as fully fledged multimedia presentations.

Director, uses a proprietary scripting language, called Lingo and produces files in the Shockwave format. It can be used to create interactive content for CD-ROMs, DVDs and Kiosks.

Distiller

Adobe Acrobat Distiller is the design professional's tool of choice for creating prepress ready PDF files. Although PDFs can be produced in many ways, Acrobat Distiller is generally the safest way to produce PDFs that will output correctly from an imgagesetter.

Distiller will take PostScript (.ps) printer files and convert them to print-ready PDFs. Distiller has a number of settings and can be adjusted to produce different types of PDFs depending on the specifications required. Pre-press companies can supply Distiller profiles to designers that can be imported into Distiller, so that the correct type of PDF can be produced easily.

See also: Adobe Acrobat, PostScript, PDF, Adobe

DMG (disk image file format)

The DMG file format is used on the Macintosh operating system, OS X. It is used to archive and compress files, particularly software, to maintain their integrity for transportation, particularly via the internet.

Opening a DMG archive will mount the files on a virtual volume known as a disk image.