0015206: Stronger drop shadow with larger blur - Mantis Issue Tracker for Scribus

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0015206	Scribus	General	public	2018-03-20 14:26	2019-11-18 07:09

Reporter	JLuc	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	Linux	OS	Ubuntu	OS Version	17.10

Summary	0015206: Stronger drop shadow with larger blur
Description	Drop shadow UI proposes a "width of blur" setting. Problem is : The wider the blur, the less the shadow's opacity. As a consequence, a large blur shadow is so thin it's allmost not visible (or not at all visible). There is no reason why user wouldnt want a strong opacity shadow with a large blur It should be possible to have large blur AND shadow with strong opacity. - Do not thin the shadow when blur size increase - or allow to have more than 100% opacity when it has to be divided by the blur size ?
Additional Information	Uploaded test document : - with 18mm blur, shadow disappear - with 4mm blur, max shadow is very thin - workaround having 2 or 3 same text frame on same position - with 1,8mm, shadow
Tags	drop shadow

Patch	No

JLuc 2018-03-20 14:53 developer ~0045062	test document : - with 18mm blur, shadow disappear - with 4mm blur, max shadow is very thin - workaround having 2 or 3 same text frame on same position - with 1,8mm, shadow dropshadow and workaround.jpg (54,066 bytes) dropshadow and workaround.jpg (54,066 bytes) drop shadow.sla (23,325 bytes)

JLuc 2019-11-18 07:05 developer ~0047099 Last edited: 2019-11-18 07:09	So as to circumvent this restriction (max value is 100%), i duplicate the shadowed element once, twice, thrice as needed. Please provide ability to set opacity value up to 1000%. Of course, maximum resulting opacity would be 100%. A >100% opacity effect would only change <100% opacity value. Eg 200% effect would result in same rendering as duplicating the element. resulting (200% of 10% opactity) = 20% resulting (200% of 60% opacity) = 100%

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2018-03-20 14:26	JLuc	New Issue
2018-03-20 14:27	JLuc	Description Updated
2018-03-20 14:28	JLuc	Tag Attached: drop shadow
2018-03-20 14:50	JLuc	Summary	Stronger drop shadow => Stronger drop shadow with larger blur
2018-03-20 14:53	JLuc	File Added: dropshadow and workaround.jpg
2018-03-20 14:53	JLuc	File Added: drop shadow.sla
2018-03-20 14:53	JLuc	Note Added: 0045062
2018-03-20 14:53	JLuc	Additional Information Updated
2018-03-20 14:54	JLuc	Description Updated
2018-03-20 14:57	JLuc	Description Updated
2019-11-18 07:05	JLuc	Note Added: 0047099
2019-11-18 07:06	JLuc	Note Edited: 0047099
2019-11-18 07:08	JLuc	Note Edited: 0047099
2019-11-18 07:09	JLuc	Note Edited: 0047099