thank you! Gregory,yes, of course I forget to mention. psd files can be 
imported without problem, but for all the rest is best the png (transparent 
background) export.?Sorry!?

--- On Sat, 8/6/11, Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Gregory Pittman <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [scribus] editing text frame to be a shadow
To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
Date: Saturday, August 6, 2011, 11:34 PM

On 08/06/2011 11:26 AM, Teodor-Toma Silvestru Muntean wrote:
> Hi, Adrienne, unfortunately Scribus not have yet the drop-shadow effect 
> feature. You will need to draw it manuallyhow to:write the text, set white 
> (or anything else) color for your text box1 for non-grandiend shadow, draw a 
> rectangle with grey (or whatever color you want for shadow) and put bellow 
> your text box with a little displace
> 2 for gradient drop-shadow,draw in Inkscape (GIMP, Illustrator, Photoshop, 
> Paint.net or whatever) a rectagle with same size as your text box, 
> gaussian-blur it, import in Scribus, put it after your text box with some 
> displace. If you put it other layer bellow as your text can be give the 
> 'multiply' transparency for this layer (properties panel/color/blend mode)

One thing to mention is that if you use Inkscape for this kind of thing, you 
will need to export as a bitmap, since this is one of the SVG features 
(gaussian blur) that Scribus cannot manage.

Greg


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