[scribus] Drop Shadow

[Jean-Luc Waber]

> Hi folks, isn't this somewhat... :-)
>
> Whenever I have needed a drop shadow in Scribus, I would simply copy the
> text frame and slide the lower one a bit (plus little X and Y). If you
> want the shadow to appear somewhat grayish, just set the font in that
> frame to a gray tone.
>
> The same with a shadow of a frame (that, however, occurs much more
> often): Copy the frame, slide the lower one a bit and fill it with a
> gray tone.
>
> What I did not yet try is transparency, I only used this on a white
> background. As we can fill frames transparently, however, this shouldn't
> be too much a problem I guess.
>
> Or did I get you completely wrong here?
>
> Rolf
>

The issue here is the soft shadow which gradually fades out.

Jean-Luc