0002542: Formatting Lens - Mantis Issue Tracker for Scribus

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0002542	Scribus	Styles	public	2005-09-07 14:56	2015-12-24 13:28

Reporter	packetbell	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	acknowledged	Resolution	open

Summary	0002542: Formatting Lens
Description	A 'lens' that alters the typography and attributes of text placed underneath, to achieve complex typographical effects that are not character or paragraph definable. For instance, upon placing a star-shaped formatting lens over a text frame (see attachment, use imagination), all text under the free-form object is rendered in a different color, or different font family, or inversed. This kind of 'free-form-formatting' is not possible using character or paragraph based formatting.
Additional Information	Where applicable, an option should included for the lens-formatting to affect only the area of overlap, or whole characters. Conceivably, most of his functionality could also be extended to other (non-text) objects (inverse, colorize, distort).
Tags	No tags attached.

Patch	No

2005-09-07 14:56	Formatting Lens.png (122,565 bytes) Formatting Lens.png (122,565 bytes)

avox 2005-09-10 16:16 updater ~0006510	This is unlikely to be implemented since it would complicate the text layout system to no end. A subset of those effects could be used using layers and transparency, especially color changes. Most of the effects could be used if Scribus had more complex layer operations (masking, layer effects etc.) Especially with masking one could just put two textframes in different layers and just mask the relevant regions. Changing the font face depending on position definitely will not be implemented. If you want to have that effect just place a star-shaped text object on top of another text object, set an opaque background and retype the text inside the star with another font face.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2005-09-07 14:56	packetbell	New Issue
2005-09-07 14:56	packetbell	File Added: Formatting Lens.png
2005-09-10 16:16	avox	Note Added: 0006510
2005-09-10 20:54	~~ringerc~~	Status	new => acknowledged
2010-04-21 03:35	christoph_s	Relationship added	related to 0006519
2015-12-24 13:28	Kunda	Patch	=> No
2015-12-24 13:28	Kunda	Product Version	1.6 milestone =>