Andrew A. Gill schrieb: > I'm having some trouble completing a task with Scribus. > > Here's the story: > > I've been asked to redesign a form for psychological evaluations. > The form basically shows parents how well their kids are doing on > various assessment scales, and at the bottom of each scale is a > gradient. > > Not your average good-looking gradient, but a big, honking ugly > gradient, from pure red through yellow and on into green. My > first impulse was to delete the gradient and replace it with > black and white bars, but I was told that the gradient was ``Sort > of their thing,'' as it showed parents if their kids were in the > red zone, the green zone or somewhere inbetween. > > Color gradients like that are difficult to print, and I was > hoping to offer them an alternative option. You can find the > original and one of my alternatives here: > > <http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t102/superluser/fradients.png> > > It may not be easy to see, but there are 168 rectangles there. I > would like to make each one a separate color, since that should > print better than an actual gradient. > > I don't have a problem with doing a lot of repetitive stuff, but > as far as I can tell, the method for doing this is > > Edit>Colors>New, enter CMYK quad, hit OK > (repeat 168 times) > > and then > > Open up properties dialogue, select rectangle, select color > (repeat 168 times) > > I really have no problem with doing the second part, but is there > any way to streamline the former? Somebody suggested importing > an EPS file with all the colors, and it looks like that would > work, but it would still be a lot of work to create such a > palette. > > Suggestions? > > Hi Andrew,
I'm not sure if I understood you correctly, but why aren't you use the Scribus gradient function? It's a task of seconds to produce a gradient like your example with 3 colors in Scribus. Here's a try: http://www.thomas-zastrow.de/temp/ScribusGradient.sla Best, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de ----------------------------
