from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
greek
greeking
1. <text, graphics> To display text as abstract dots and lines
in order to give a preview of layout without actually being
legible. This is faster than drawing the characters correctly
which may require scaling or other transformations. Greeking
is particularly useful when displaying a reduced image of a
document where the text would be too small to be legible on
the display anyway.
A related technique is {lorem ipsum}.
(2006-09-18)