[scribus] Using the Dropshadow Feature

mick crane mick.crane at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 21:07:03 UTC 2018


On 2018-02-28 18:03, David Burleigh wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 12:44 -0500, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>> On 02/28/2018 11:43 AM, David Burleigh wrote:
>> > I'm trying to use the dropshadow feature to put a white blur
>> > behind
>> > black text so as to make it more readable when superimposed on an
>> > image that isn't generally light enough to give sufficent contrast
>> > to
>> > the black text, but also not dark enough to make white text stand
>> > out.
>> > So I set the offset to 0 in both directions and the blur at .2
>> > inches.
>> > The effect is almost what I'm looking for, but white blur is not
>> > white
>> > enough, and I can't find a setting to strengthen it. Is there a
>> > better
>> > way to accomplish this effect?
>> 
>> If you're using a true white, then it's the background image that's
>> the
>> problem.
>> 
>> Greg

> Well, it's the white from the menu in the dropshadow section. Is there
> no way to make the white blur effect more dense?

duplicate the level ?

mick

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