Gregory Pittman said the following at 05/02/2008 09:02 PM : >> > Do we need more here? > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Text_Gradients
My suggestions would be: 1. Make it a whole lot more obvious how to find that page. (What seems obvious to me: searching on "gradient" was no help at all, and led me to believe that the entire topic was absent. Doing it again, I see that actually it is there... at item #14, behind stuff like GSoC, and well off the bottom of the initial screen, so although "search" found the "Text Gradients" article, it's not actually likely that someone would have the patience to read down the list far enough to discover it.) 2. Detailed comments about the text on that page: The first thing to do is to select the frame, then click Item > Convert To > Outlines, or use the Context menu. [should be something more like: The operations are as follows: 1. Select the frame; 2. From either the Insert menu or by right-clicking, select "Convert To" 3. Click on "Outlines" ] In the middle example, we then click Item > Ungroup to separate the individual letters, then click each one and use the gradients in Properties > Colors as desired. If you do not ungroup, you can choose different colors for each letter, but there will be one kind of gradient possible for all letters [what does "one kind of gradient possible for all letters" mean? My natural reaction is: "well I want to apply only one gradient to each letter. Why would I ever want to apply more than one gradient to a letter?".] "use the gradients in Properties > Colors as desired" sounds fine... except that the way that the gradient works in Properties | Colours is very puzzling, and there should be a link to a page that explains exactly what the little red and blue triangles are, and why I get more of them if I click, and how to get rid of the additional ones. Doc
