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0002542ScribusStylespublic2015-12-24 13:28
Reporterpacketbell Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
Status acknowledgedResolutionopen 
Summary0002542: Formatting Lens
DescriptionA '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 InformationWhere 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).
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related to 0006519 new New "Specialeffect" element 

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2005-09-07 14:56

 

Formatting Lens.png (122,565 bytes)   
Formatting Lens.png (122,565 bytes)   

avox

2005-09-10 16:16

administrator   ~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.

Issue History

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 =>