[scribus] editing text frame to be a shadow

[John Culleton]

On Saturday, August 06, 2011 11:11:38 am Ondřej Němeček wrote:
> Do you mean shadow of text itself or shadow of frame? If you meen 
first
> one...
> 
> ...simplest way is to create text frame, fill some text, select 
created
> text frame, F2 -> Text -> Color and Effects -> Shadowed text icon +
> select second color as shadow color (rollup menu there). It is all 
you
> need to make.
> 
> Next, you can set this in the style too.
> 
> If you mean shadow of the frame itself... I have no solution. 
Perhaps to
> make polygon in lower layer, fill them by some color or gradient 
and a
> little move them. But this create sharp or gradiented shadow, which 
is
> not optimal in some cases. Is there some way to make real shadow 
blur?
> 
> Best regards,
> Ondrej.

This is a more elegant answer than mine! But I don't understand this 
part:
> select second color as shadow color (rollup menu there).

Where do I click to get to this rollup menu? Is there a wiki 
reference maybe?
-- 
John Culleton

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