[Scribus] 3D text effects

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Mon Sep 3 19:35:36 CEST 2007


Thomas Zastrow wrote:
> John Brown schrieb:
>   
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Is there a way in Scribus to give text a 3D appearance? If not, can 
>> someone suggest other free (as in free beer) software that can do it, 
>> and preferably save the result in a scalable form that can be imported 
>> into Scribus?
>>
>> Right now, I am using shadows.
>>
>>     
> Hi John,
>
> perhaps its worth for you to take a look at Inkscape ( 
> http://www.inkscape.org/). Inkscape saves it's pictures as SVG which can 
> be directly imported into Scribus.
>
>   
The ultimate (perhaps) for this kind of thing is going to be something 
like Blender, which has a bit of a learning curve to be sure, but can do 
things that most other graphics manipulation programs only pretend to do.

Greg



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