[scribus] [Scribus] text with gradient

Louis Desjardins louis_desjardins at mardigrafe.com
Sat May 3 03:23:32 CEST 2008


D. R. Evans a écrit :
> This is an old thread, and I've been trying to to exactly this (create
> letters that have gradients):
> 
> Christoph Schäfer said the following at 05/30/2007 06:36 AM :
>> Am Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2007 02:00 schrieb Helge Hielscher:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> at
>>> http://www.kde-apps.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=9911&file1=9911-1.
>>> png&file2=&file3=&name=Scribus there is the word Scribus with an horizontal
>>> gradient. How has it been achieved?
>>> I've tried to convert the text "Scribus" to outline, but I have
>>> to ungroup the letters to apply a gradient. What am I missing?
>>>
>> 1. Convert letters to outlines
>>
>> 2. Item > Combine Polygons
>>
>> 3. Apply Gradient in the Properties Palette
> 
> I must be doing something wrong, because I have:
> 
> 0. Created a text frame and inserted the letters I want.
> 1. Converted the letters to outlines
> 2. Hmmm.... I can't Item | Combine Polygons because that item is greyed out.

What version of Scribus are you trying this with?

Louis
> 
> I looked in the wiki in the hope that there was a more detailed tutorial on
> how to do this, but I couldn't see anything.
> 
>   Doc
> 
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