<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi, Adrienne, unfortunately Scribus not have yet the drop-shadow effect feature. You will need to draw it manually<div>how to:</div><div>write the text, set white (or anything else) color for your text box</div><div>1 for non-grandiend shadow, </div><div>draw a rectangle with grey (or whatever color you want for shadow) and put bellow your text box with a little displace</div><div><br></div><div>2 for gradient drop-shadow,</div><div>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)</div><div><br></div><div>p.s.</div><div>Sorry my english isn't perfect<br><br>--- On <b>Sat,
8/6/11, Adrienne Carmack <i><adrienne.carmack@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Adrienne Carmack <adrienne.carmack@gmail.com><br>Subject: [scribus] editing text frame to be a shadow<br>To: scribus@lists.scribus.net<br>Date: Saturday, August 6, 2011, 4:11 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">I'd like to make a text box with a shadow effect. I've searched and<br>searched, and thought I'd found instructions, but I'm still not seeing<br>how to do it. Please let me know if clear instructions are available<br>somewhere, or just tell me how to do it.<br><br>Many thanks!<br>Adrienne<br><br>___<br>Scribus Mailing List: <a ymailto="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.net" href="/mc/compose?to=scribus@lists.scribus.net">scribus@lists.scribus.net</a><br>Edit your options or unsubscribe:<br><a href="http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus"
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