+ In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is a placeholder text + used to demonstrate the visual form of a document without relying on + meaningful content (also called greeking). Replacing the actual + content with placeholder text allows designers to design the form of + the content before the content itself has been produced. The lorem + ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et + malorum, a 2nd-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, + added, and removed to make it nonsensical, improper Latin. A + variation of the ordinary lorem ipsum text has been used in + typesetting since the 1960s or earlier, when it was popularized by + advertisements for Letraset transfer sheets. It was introduced to + the Information Age in the mid-1980s by Aldus Corporation, which + employed it in graphics and word-processing templates for its + desktop publishing program PageMaker. +
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