Tobias, you should have sent this to the Scribus list too ;-) Tobias Lochner wrote: > Thanks for your replies. > > I attached a pdf, so you can see where I got after one evenig with scribus. > I'm very satisfied with results so far but had to drop the drop-shadows. > > Bye, Tobias
But it's not that hard to make the blackboard's shadow degrading to transparent background in a decent image editor (e.g. Gimp, PaintShopPro etc). You just have to save the resulting image as a GIF, which supports transparencies. Scribus handles such transparencies well, though you may run into troubles with transparencies in some versions of PDF output from Scribus. Sveinn > > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: "Sveinn ? Felli (IMAP)" [mailto:sveinki at nett.is] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Juli 2009 22:07 > An: Scribus User Mailing List; tobias.lochner at googlemail.com > Betreff: Re: [scribus] I need help creating a publication for a public > school > > > > John Culleton wrote: >> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 01:36:11 pm Tobias Lochner wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>> I?m working as a teacher at a public school. At moment it?s my >>> task to compile a publication about all the stuff that?s going on >>> at our school over the year. >>> >>> Because there is already an other booklet about the school, which >>> is made by a professional, I want to use (nearly) the same >>> design, that was used in this publication. (This is also wanted >>> by the administration.) I attached a two page excerpt as an >>> example. >>> >>> >>> >>> So this leads to my question(s): >>> >>> >>> >>> Is it possible to realize this kind of layout with scribus at >>> moment? >>> >>> How can I get something like the circle-like borders on the left >>> and right? >>> >>> What about the dropshawdows? >> The slate boards with drop shadows I would make in Gimp and import >> as a single graphic. The drop shadow with the blended edge is >> easier in Gimp. >> >> For the big circles you need a transparent layer with the part >> circle inscribed and the outer area filled with semi-transparent >> white. Again this is easy in Gimp but perhaps doable in Scribus. >> It looks like that newsletter was done with Photoshop or Gimp. >> >> Scribus 1.3.5 has a Gimp exit that might be useful. > > More likely this is done in a drawing program like > Illustrator, CorelDraw, Xara etc. Probably easy to do in > Inkscape. > I think it's no big deal to do a similar layout in Scribus, > except maybe for the drop shadows - which in this case are > awfully ower the top... > > Is the publication intended for printing or as PDF on a > website ? > > Sveinn ? Felli >
