Being a desktop designer, I've come across the term "Greeking" quite often in page layout programs. I've never understood what it meant until we discussed it in a Quark class I take at George Brown College.
As nudge-nudge-wink-wink as it sounds, Greeking, when it comes to page layout, refers to the way small text is displayed on your monitor. If your page layout program is set to Greek text at 9 pts, fonts smaller than 9 pts will display as unreadable text. All you'll see is scribbled lines.
Greeking also refers to placeholder text used in mock-ups of visual design projects before the actual words are inserted into the finished product. Think of "lorem ipsum dolor."
Either way, it's all Greek to me. (You knew that was coming!)
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