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Title: Effects on Scribus
Post by: Ico on February 10, 2015, 10:04:04 AM
Hi!I'm new in this forum. I'm Federico from Italy, i'm italian!!! In Italy there isn't a Scribus's forum. (Yes, there is, but it's too small!!!)
How can i do this effect on pictures and words?
Thank, sorry for my english!

Federico

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Title: Re: Effects on Scribus
Post by: Nermander on February 10, 2015, 12:31:50 PM
What effect do you mean? White text on black background?

Or du you mean a "cut out" text where the background shows through? (I think there is a tutorial on that one, the key is to convert the text to a shape.)
Title: Re: Effects on Scribus
Post by: a.l.e on February 10, 2015, 12:38:11 PM
ciao federico

probably, what comes closest to the glow effect is a drop shadow... and it's not yet implemented in scribus 1.4.x.

it's in 1.5 but it does not seem to work very well (reporters say that it makes everything run very slow...)

you can try using inkscape for it

http://ionflux.org/en/inkscape_glow_tutorial_01.html (or similar)

and then import the svn into scribus...

ciao
a.l.e
Title: Re: Effects on Scribus
Post by: GarryP on February 10, 2015, 03:12:25 PM
If it's the glow effect you want then I agree with a.l.e. Something like Inkscape - at the moment - is much better for that sort of thing.

In Scribus you can achieve a very basic "glow" effect on circles by using gradient fills but it's a lot of work to get it looking reasonably good, and it would probably be quicker to read an Inkscape - or GIMP - tutorial anyway.

P.S. Also, if you are on Linux, Xara http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ can add drop shadows to shapes very quickly. (I'm fairly certain that you can change the shadow colour so it looks like a glow instead, but I don't have my laptop at hand to check.)
Title: Re: Effects on Scribus
Post by: Ico on February 10, 2015, 07:21:55 PM
Hi! thanks for the answers!!!
Yes i want to do a glow effect! I made the picture with Indesign, but i want to pass at open source software, like Scribus ok Inkscape! Now, i'm using Windows 7!
Ok, if there isn't a good command to doing a glow, for this effect i try to use Indesign, illustrator or Inkscape yet!
Thanks to all!

P.S. I'm usign Scribus 1.4.4
Title: Re: Effects on Scribus
Post by: Ico on February 10, 2015, 07:29:33 PM
In Italy the open source software aren't very popular like in other countries. So, it's hard to find an informations!
Sorry for my english! I TRY IT!
Good Night!

Federico