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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0006519ScribusGeneralpublic2011-06-22 20:28
ReporteraliB Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
PlatformDell Inspiron 9400OSSuSEOS Version10.2
Summary0006519: New "Specialeffect" element
DescriptionThis element could be layed on top of any other element (textbox, image, shape ...) and so provide a nondestructive way to change the appearance of an element.

Possible effects could be:
- Blur
- Glas structure
- Lense
- Glitter
... (see Filters in Gimp)
TagsNo tags attached.
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related to 0002542 acknowledged Formatting Lens 
has duplicate 0009050 closedjghali add support of blur of shapes and lines 

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jghali

2007-11-30 09:48

administrator   ~0018056

Last edited: 2007-11-30 09:49

The problem is that these kind of effects are not exportable to PDF without rasterizing the elements on which they are applied. PDF format simply does not support them. That means those effects are destructive when exported to PDF.

aliB

2010-02-19 10:20

reporter   ~0023336

Last edited: 2010-02-19 10:21

Since the PDF is not your source document the rasterization is not really bad.
My point is, if you have these possibilities you can easily experiment with your layout. Otherwise you'd have to export your page to a bitmap and edit it in gimp.
Especially creating and experimenting with text effects are not possible in scriubs at the moment.

A real good solution would be to support kipi and gimp plugins. Then you would not have to implement all those effects yourself.

This is how I imagine the work flow
1. place the new effect frame (derivate of an imageframe) on your page
2. dialog with all available effects appears with a preview and the original image of the area under the effect frame
3. on applying an effect scribus would have to do following things:
a) create a new image (png) containing the area under the effect frame
b) apply the selected effect on that image
c) store effect settings for further possible work
d) on a document change (e.g. textframe was edited or moved ... start from a)

This would be really nice for 1.5.x

jghali

2010-02-19 10:52

administrator   ~0023338

>> Since the PDF is not your source document the rasterization is not really bad.

That's not the problem. The problem is that those effects *cannot* be exported to PDF without rasterization. Applying those effects on elements such as text would imply rasterizing text when exporting to PDF. Very bad for printability. Same applies to PS or SVG for effects not directly supported by those formats.

>> A real good solution would be to support kipi and gimp plugins.

Given the current cmyk support of almost all those plugins, that's currently not realistic. Lots of gimp plugins relies also on GTK. Scribus being based on Qt, that won't play well.

aliB

2010-04-20 10:30

reporter   ~0023732

cmyk is not necessary for these plugins since all images in scribus are also rgb. Exporting to pdf would just convert the rgb image with already applied effects to cmyk. So no changes are necessary on the export side.

Kipi plugins do not relay on gtk.

Using this approach would increase the amount of available effects dramatically (since they are not scribus specific).
Not using this approach would mean to find volunteers for coding every (already available) effect once again.

Maybe this issue should be spitted into two separate issues?
1. New "Spezial effect" element
2. Support 3rd party effects (kipi, gimp) in image frames.

jghali

2010-04-20 12:01

administrator   ~0023737

Last edited: 2010-04-20 12:05

*Cmyk is necessary*. Effects must be applied in the image native colorspace or unwanted effects will occur like pollution of black channel by other colors in case of cmyk images. If a cmyk image contains infos only in the black channel, it must contains only infos in the black channel on output, including after being filtered. There are exceptions like colorize filter, but this a rule which must be followed as far as possible or printability will suffer. If an intermediate rgb image is used, black channel will be decomposed into the four colors. So cmyk support is necessary.

Kipi relies on KDE specific apis and is consequently neither useable for Scribus.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2007-11-30 09:33 aliB New Issue
2007-11-30 09:48 jghali Note Added: 0018056
2007-11-30 09:49 jghali Note Edited: 0018056
2010-02-19 10:20 aliB Note Added: 0023336
2010-02-19 10:21 aliB Note Edited: 0023336
2010-02-19 10:52 jghali Note Added: 0023338
2010-04-20 10:30 aliB Note Added: 0023732
2010-04-20 12:01 jghali Note Added: 0023737
2010-04-20 12:01 jghali Note Edited: 0023737
2010-04-20 12:02 jghali Note Edited: 0023737
2010-04-20 12:05 jghali Note Edited: 0023737
2010-04-21 03:35 christoph_s Relationship added related to 0002542
2010-04-23 13:27 jghali Relationship added has duplicate 0009050