formatize

Verb

1. To trim or add to a picture in order to make it fit into a standard frame size.
   • The desired symmetry was only achieved by "formatizing" great masterpieces; and this was why Christian von Mechel had to remove additions to pictures and remedy losses when the Hapsburg paintings were moved from the...
   • While not as destructive as formatizing, this close trimming is a further indication that the albums are art collections and not essentially print collections, for even in the eighteenth century a diehard print...
   • Indeed, this latter process may have begun during the seventeenth century: Muizelaar and Van de Wetering have suggested that 'formatizing' (the term sometimes used to describe the cutting down or adding to a picture, or...
2. To prepare a specimen so that it fits a standard size and shape.
   • A small hacksaw was used to formatize rock specimens. - 1968, Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Contribuição para a fauna do Kimeridgiano da mina de lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal), page 11:
   • Part of specimen in Fig. 2 after formatizing and cutting. - 2009, V. P. Wright, M. E. Tucker, Calcretes (Reprint Series Volume 2 of the IAS), →ISBN, page 234:
3. To translate or render into a specific format.
   • The 'reference file' ICDSOL is built by means of an auxiliary program, ICDTEST, that simply reads correction commands, according to a format similar to that of the stored commands, and then it checks, formatizes and...
   • My desire was to give her half, because she had helped me with the project, of digiting and formatizing the work to be presented in a power point presentation at my summer conferences. - 2012, Ivan Pitzer de Souza, The...
   • But the fundamental definition of graphic design as a way of organizing, “formatizing,” and functionalizing word and image remains constant. - 2015, Steven Heller, Veronique Vienne, Becoming a Graphic and Digital...