[scribus] Image colorize no longer works?

John Beardmore John at T4sLtd.co.uk
Mon Jul 13 04:18:10 CEST 2009


Christoph Schäfer wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 12. Juli 2009 21:53:36 schrieb a.l.e:

>>>> I don't see what The Gimp has to do with it. I'm talking about
>>>> the Sribus "Image Effects" dialog that offers some
>>>> non-destructive effects like colorize, grayscale or invert. It
>>>> worked perfectly fine for eps files in Scribus 1.3.4.
>>> My understanding is that the special image effects of Scribus 1.3.5
>>> depend on a call to Gimp to do the actual work, just as the export
>>> to pdf depends on Ghostscript. The list of functions looks a lot
>>> like a litany of Gimp capabilities. If I am wrong would someone who
>>> knows please explain how these effects are done programmatically?
>> i'm pretty sure scribus doesn't use gimp to apply those effects.
> 
> Correct.
> 
>> generally spoken, it may be true that scribus used to let you apply
>> effects to eps and doesn't any more.
> 
> Also correct. It has been disabled for EPS and PDF files in image frames.

And does it have to be that way ?


Cheers, J/.
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