On Tuesday 13 November 2007 10:26:07 am Celso Junior wrote: > Err... I could be wrong but. are we not going too far for what a DTP app > is made for? > > See, If a text is filled with effects like drop shadows, isn't it > belonging to the Illustration field? I'm thinking in some designer using > a hypotetical drop shadow effect in a text frame, full of text, and > screaming about "how slow scribus is".... O_o > We saw an example made under Indesign, some creator designed a book > cover and wrote the word "bible" a few dozens of times...mixing colors, > transparency effects and shadows and ... so much crep.... I was not a > suprise that he just could not print that thing... But if he just had > used an illustration or image effect program, the rasterized output > would require so much less from the publishg app and the job would be > done so easylly that beats me the reason the new generation publishing > apps add that kind of resources... I hope scribus does not follow that > way too... the basic is there and there is not that much to be worried > about... ^_^ > > That's only my oppinion... > Celso
I only mentioned it because I plug Scribus as a Quark replacement, and this is a new feature in Quark. I am comfortable with doing drop shadows in Gimp and bringing in that rasterized graphic. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
