[scribus] Image colorize no longer works?

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Montag, 13. Juli 2009 04:18:10 schrieb John Beardmore:
> 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 ?
>

Yes, at least until we can find a way to make colour management working 
reliably.

Cheers

Christoph