On 08/07/2011 02:10 AM, John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday, August 06, 2011 03:14:51 pm Ond?ej N?me?ek wrote: >> >> Shown here: >> >> http://www.oldfrog.cz/downloads/scribus-samples/Screenshot.png >> >> O. > > Excellent! Now if someone can describe how to blur the shadow we will > have the best of all worlds.
Unfortunately there is no way to make gausian blur directly. Only way is to multiple duplicate object and change slightly color/opacity/shade and position of individual copies. I tested it here (in this test I converted text to outlines, but this is not nessesery): http://www.oldfrog.cz/downloads/scribus-samples/Screenshot-1.png This is something similar what script bellow does: http://creationlibre.org/en/ombre-portee-avec-scribus/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TrfVypdu7jwJ:creationlibre.org/en/ombre-portee-avec-scribus/+scribus+script+shadow This method can simulate not only blured shadow of frame and shape itself but shadow of its content too (text for example). Disadvantage of this method is no easy way to edit shadowed content or shape. Maybe should be gausian blur implemented in some future Scribus version? Best regards Ondrej. -- Ondrej Nemecek icq: 250163477
