Compositor may refer to: *

Compositor (typesetting) Typesetting is the composition of text by means of arranging physical ''type'' (or ''sort'') in mechanical systems or ''glyphs'' in digital systems representing ''characters'' (letters and other symbols).Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random Ho ...

, a person or machine which arranged movable type for printing ** Paige Compositor, a device developed to replace manual compositors, which was a commercial failure *

Compositing software Digital compositing is the process of digitally assembling multiple images to make a final image, typically for print, motion pictures or screen display. It is the digital analogue of optical film compositing. Mathematics The basic operation use ...

, used in film post-production for compositing, special effects, and color correction *

Compositing window manager A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen data buffer, buffer for each window. The window manager Compositing, composites the window buffers into an image representing the screen ...

, a software process which composites off-screen buffers for each open window to create a screen image ** Quartz Compositor, the display server and window manager in macOS ** Wayland compositor, any computer display server compatible with the Wayland protocol

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