[scribus] Drop Shadow

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 17 14:12:30 UTC 2012


On 01/17/2012 08:46 AM, a.l.e wrote:
> hi william,
>
>> No soft shadow obliterates anything that it falls upon, but only
>> modifies its appearance, much like the shadow of the earth modifying the
>> appearance of the moon during a lunar eclipse. Therefore, the following
>> is true:
>>
>> In order for Scribus to properly support soft shadows, it would have to
>> first natively support both transparency and various forms of gradients
>> (especially gradients that directly follow the shape of an object), and
>> be able to treat transparency as a variable element of those gradients.
>>
>> I know that sounds daunting to say the least (it certainly does to me),
>> but if you're going to do it, you might as well do it right.
>
>
> first, scribus does support transparency... do you need new types of it?
>
> gradients... there are a lot of them already in scribus... and place for
> more...
>
>
> you seem to deeply understand the way drop shadows works: may i ask you
> to write an exact specification of everything needed for scribus to
> support it?
>
> i think that there is at least one person in the scribus community, who
> is ready to program the craziest forms of gradients and transparencies
> one can ask for (and PDF can support...). :-))
>

I think there are basically 2 kinds of drop shadows that are desired

- drop shadow related to an object like a frame or shape.

- drop shadow related to something inside a frame, such as text or 
perhaps a Bezier curve or other vector graphic.

Some support could come from Scribus supporting Gaussian blur such as 
can be done in Inkscape and exported in an SVG. A start might be to be 
able to import an SVG with Gaussian blur, then later perhaps be able to 
create blur inside Scribus.

Greg



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