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
