Compositor may refer to:
- Compositor (typesetting), 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, used in film post-production for compositing, special effects, and color correction
- Compositing window manager, 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
See also
- Compositing, combining visual elements from separate sources into a single result. Originally used for a tradesman in the printing industry a compositor, who assembled movable type and blocks to form a page for printing.
Subsequently used in the film industry.
Topics referred to by the same term
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