Sorry, there's a small error in here caused by a recent change in the svn tree (well, actually caused by me not testing thoroughly) that leads to the shadows being of the wrong size. The fix is at
http://www.benjamin-dumke.de/scribus/softshadow2.diff (it's a difference of just one line). The new MD5 is c2da93e67cf8d41d9406c2c02213967e Ben Benjamin Dumke schrieb: > Hi everyone, > > one feature that I often miss in Scribus is the possibility to add what > I call a "soft shadow" (usually called drop shadow, but I want to avoid > confusion with the text effect of that name) to an object, i.e. the > shape of the object in one color, with blurry edges and with some offset > from the original object. > > Obviously, this can manually be done by exporting a bitmap, editing it > with the GIMP and importing the result back into the Scribus document. > However, this has to be repeated every time the original object is > edited (well, unless you only change the color). > > That's why I have implemented the ability to do this automatically in > Scribus. But my change is far away from anything that can be put into > Scribus as-is (see below for the reasons), which is why I am not putting > it in the bug tracker (there is a feature request open for this). For > those people, however, who build Scribus 1.3.5svn themselves and would > like to try this out, I have put the diff on my webspace. > > Before you download and try it, you should understand the following points: > > * The major drawback is: You don't see the soft shadow when working in > Scribus. You only see it when you export the document to PDF (version > 1.4 or higher; we're using transparency). Nowhere else! Whether you > export to any other format or are working on the object within Scribus > -- you are not going to see the shadow. If that's unacceptable to you, > you don't even have to download it. > > * The user interface is ugly, I didn't take care of spacing or anything > else. You have five extra parameters on the "X, Y, Z" tab of the > properties pallette: A checkbox for whether you want a shadow or not, > "dx" and "dy" for the offset of the shadow from the original object, the > color of the shadow, and the blur radius that gets applied to the shadow. > > * It doesn't work on master pages. Period. But I guess if you have to > have something like that on a masterpage, it is acceptable to do that > manually. > > * If you use copy & paste, copy page, duplicate page or the like to > create a copy of the object, the soft shadow properties will not be > copied. This shouldn't be too hard too fix, but I haven't done that yet. > If you really need to copy a page with so many shadowed objects that you > can't manually copy the settings, you can import a page from a .sla > document; this will keep the settings. > > * Since I'm not a Scribus developer, I often have to guess my way around > the code. So I have probably abused the Scibus API quite a bit and maybe > forgotten some important things. > > Okay, if you've understood this all, know what you're doing (oh, and we > haven't heard the usual "Don't use 1.3.5svn productivly" of the day, > have we?), you can try it out. The diff against revision 13052 (the > current) is at > > http://www.benjamin-dumke.de/scribus/softshadow.diff > > The MD5 sum is 3564a5f47c1ecdea3aa0d8905be53c23. > > Greetings, > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
