[scribus] Image colorize no longer works?

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Sonntag, 12. Juli 2009 21:53:36 schrieb a.l.e:
> hi all
>
> > > I don't see what The Gimp has to do with it. I'm talking about
> > > the Sribus "Image Effects" dialog that offers some
> > > non-destructive effects like colorize, grayscale or invert. It
> > > worked perfectly fine for eps files in Scribus 1.3.4.
> >
> > My understanding is that the special image effects of Scribus 1.3.5
> > depend on a call to Gimp to do the actual work, just as the export
> > to pdf depends on Ghostscript. The list of functions looks a lot
> > like a litany of Gimp capabilities. If I am wrong would someone who
> > knows please explain how these effects are done programmatically?
>
> i'm pretty sure scribus doesn't use gimp to apply those effects.

Correct.

>
> generally spoken, it may be true that scribus used to let you apply
> effects to eps and doesn't any more.

Also correct. It has been disabled for EPS and PDF files in image frames.

Cheers

Christoph