On 01/17/2012 08:46 AM, a.l.e wrote: > hi william, > >> No soft shadow obliterates anything that it falls upon, but only >> modifies its appearance, much like the shadow of the earth modifying the >> appearance of the moon during a lunar eclipse. Therefore, the following >> is true: >> >> In order for Scribus to properly support soft shadows, it would have to >> first natively support both transparency and various forms of gradients >> (especially gradients that directly follow the shape of an object), and >> be able to treat transparency as a variable element of those gradients. >> >> I know that sounds daunting to say the least (it certainly does to me), >> but if you're going to do it, you might as well do it right. > > > first, scribus does support transparency... do you need new types of it? > > gradients... there are a lot of them already in scribus... and place for > more... > > > you seem to deeply understand the way drop shadows works: may i ask you > to write an exact specification of everything needed for scribus to > support it? > > i think that there is at least one person in the scribus community, who > is ready to program the craziest forms of gradients and transparencies > one can ask for (and PDF can support...). :-)) >
I think there are basically 2 kinds of drop shadows that are desired - drop shadow related to an object like a frame or shape. - drop shadow related to something inside a frame, such as text or perhaps a Bezier curve or other vector graphic. Some support could come from Scribus supporting Gaussian blur such as can be done in Inkscape and exported in an SVG. A start might be to be able to import an SVG with Gaussian blur, then later perhaps be able to create blur inside Scribus. Greg
