<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><pre class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">><i class=""> I wonder if it's possible to export a pdf from Scribus, import in in
</i>><i class=""> Inkscape, add the drop shadow and then reimport the pdf in Scribus. I
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Before 1.5.x, I used to use Gimp if I wanted soft drop shadows. Getting
1.5.3 is by far a better answer.
Greg
</blockquote></pre><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for all the help.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1.5.3 is amazing - a huge improvement, drop shadows now a breeze. My main task now is to transcribe a whole chapter of a training manual with loads of photographs etc - so I will keep you posted on how I feel about the whole experience. Eventually the manual will be, maybe 3 volumes of over 150 pages each, so a large project.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I like: the intuitive interface and the similarity (only slight admittedly) to InDesign and most DTP programs. I love how easy it is to change text WITHOUT having to select the tex in the box, just selecting the box does it - so easy. Creating new colours I also easy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I hate: when adjusting Drop shadows, you have a tick box - it takes two clicks of the mouse to set it - why ? Surely one is enough. I can’t see how to easily centre an image within a frame or to auto size it to fit the frame. Is there an arrange palette ? To arrange objects (image or text frames) to be centred together either horizontally or vertically or left or right ?? Also when I drag to select a block of text, everything slows down and keeps moving after I have released the mouse - is this normal ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Keep this up and you will replace Adobe :-)). As I said, I am currently reproducing a training manual which I have got so far in Indesign, but having upgraded to Sierra, it now no longer works. Working from a PDF, I am starting afresh in Scribus, laboriously re-creating a complicated book with many styles and master pages, so far so good !</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers</div><div class="">Colin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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