William F. Maddock schrieb: > -----Original Message----- > >> From: Thomas Zastrow <listen at thomas-zastrow.de> >> Sent: Jun 26, 2007 1:18 PM >> To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >> Subject: [Scribus] Scribus on Mac >> >> Btw., my little tutorial from sunday has now another fine trick for >> building nice texts: >> >> http://www.thomas-zastrow.de/temp/TextImage.pdf >> > > The first "trick" is simply an example of what is known as "Graphics > Masking", that is, using a vector path to mask off various parts of a > bit-mapped graphic. PageStream has done it for years, and does it quickly, > even on old, slow machines. It's a great feature to have, if it can be done > right. I suspect that much of the time taken to do your trick involves that > fact that there are actually many, many sub-paths involved, rather than just > a few of them. It can be a particularly useful effect for headlines. > > Certainly, the effect isn't new, I used it with CorelDraw many years ago. I just wanted to show how to do it in Scribus ;-)
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