2010/6/24 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> > On 06/24/2010 05:47 AM, TSH wrote: > >> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:41:33 +0930, Ray wrote: >> >> As a newbie to Scribus and Ubuntu, all I want to be able to do in a >>> quick& simple manner is to place 2 or 3 photos, with coloured borders >>> and adjustable shadows onto a page, with a little text. So far I can put >>> the text& photos onto a blank page and even rotate them a bit - but >>> making coloured borders& shadows seems to escape me. Properties just >>> doesn't seem to cover this action. >>> >> >> >> For simple coloured borders, select the object and open the properties >> dialog. Go to the 'Line' tab and select the type of line and size. Now go >> to the 'Colours' tab, click on the 'Line' button at the top (icon of a >> pencil drawing a line) and select your preferred colour. >> >> For the shadow, you need to cheat, and you can't do a soft shadow. But if >> you're happy with a hard edged shadow: >> 1) Copy the object and paste, so that you have a duplicate (it will sit >> directly over the original). >> 2) Now, with the new object still selected, right click and 'Convert to' >> a polygon. >> 3) In the properties dialog, under the 'Colours' tab, click on the 'Fill' >> button (icon of bucket) and select the colour for the shadow (do this for >> the Line also). >> 4) Now offset the shadow the desired amount, then right click and Level> >> Lower until it is under the original object. >> 5) If you want, you can select both the original object and the shadow >> object and go Item> Group, so that they become a unit. >> >> Don't forget that you can assign some transparency to your shadow to > soften it a bit. I haven't played around with it, but I wonder if something > might be done with gradients or maybe even patterns in the fill of the > shadow object to give it a softer edge. > > You can of course, make an image of a solid color with feathered edges in > Gimp and then import that into an image frame in Scribus underneath your > image. This might not be so bad if your images are of all one or just a few > sizes. >
I wonder whether such an image could resist well to some non-proportional distortion. What you have tested and shown in the following email is great ! It works. Louis > > Greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100624/5ffccc30/attachment.htm>
