![]() If you wish other colors, take a copy from your Scrapbook, ungroup, and change colors as desired.There is also in the online manual specific instructions and some demo While the shadow looks darker behind the text frame, I think this is just due to the contrast with the white versus the dark edges of the image.Īlso note that you can adjust the opacity of the shadow to lighten as needed, which should visually reduce the corner crease effect. With the former, I let just a little of the shadow peak out on top and to the left, to define those edges of the frame (the screenshot was taken from Adobe Reader, so this is not the frame edge as it might be seen in Scribus). Here are a couple of instances of usage with a text frame and image frame. Place as you wish behind other frames – obviously, a text frame will need a background color selected. Even though we made a square, we can stretch it this way and that for our needs. Group the triangles, then Save to your Scrapbook. Part of the reason this is a judgement is that as you bring the triangles closer you start to see some edge effect at the corners, something like a crease. ![]() Use a high Zoom in Scribus, at least 800 to 1600%, and in the end check after export to PDF. I ended up moving each of the four triangles 0.06 pts (0.021 mm or 0.001 inch) toward the center. This will be your own judgement call, but hold down Shift and Alt, so that you can move in hundredths of points, and move each triangle toward the center. This is real and will show in the final PDFs you make. ![]() We've done all our numbers right – height, width, X-Pos, and Y-Pos, but look at that skinny white cross in our square. They say that baking is a science, cooking is an art, and here is where some artistic judgement comes to play, since Scribus seems to be both science and art. Since there are opposite triangles, the actual settings will be either 80% or 20% – the appearance is your guide. I would suggest moving the mark for the Black at least 80% over from its starting position. What I found was that if you leave the Black color marker at the peaks of the triangles, there won't be enough color at the outer edge to appreciate any gradient. ![]() For this example, I will just use Black and White for the colors, but for each, White needs to be on the outside of our square. The top and bottom triangles need vertical gradient fills, the right and left need horizontal gradient fills. Up until now, we left the default color of the borders as Black, but we don't want borders, so make that None. Now we work on each triangle one at a time. Now flip horizontally, and then flip vertically (doesn't have to be in that order, of course), and you've created your basic shape: Hold down Shift and select each type (you only want the top layer). It looks like nothing has happened, but that's because you have a copy of each right on top of the originals. Select these two frames, then select Item > Multiple Duplicate (not Duplicate), make one copy and leave the positions for horizontal and vertical shift at 0. Pick round numbers for X-Pos and Y-Pos and match the values for the two triangles:Īnd it doesn't get any harder to finish. Placement is going to be critical, but with Properties it's easy. For the other, the width was 250, and the height 125. Since I usually work in units of points, I adjusted the triangle to the left above so that height was 250 pts and width was 125 pts. We don't have to do any trigonometry, because we can see that by definition, the triangles touch in the center of the square. What that means is that if we stand each one on its hypotenuse, the height is exactly one-half the base. What can we say about the right triangles we want to create? They're special because they're right triangles, but even more so because the sides are equal. Make one of each, and as I illustrate here, size and proportions are arbitrary as you create them: We want particular orientations for these, and here is one: ![]() We will only actually draw 2 of them, then copy. Which is made from 4 triangles, and since this is a square, these are all right triangles, with hypotenuses the same size. It's a bit of work, but what you will have at the end is a grouped object you can save in your Scrapbook, then reuse and resize as needed, sort of a make once, use many approach. I will warn at the outset that this is hardly a perfect method, but what we will do is to create a square template from triangular elements, and arrange the gradient in each part so that we end up with the edge gradients all going in the correct direction. The difficulty is that, if we wanted to create this for a rectangular object, as most content is, there is no suitable gradient that works in this fashion, where we have horizontal fading at the vertical edges and vertical fading at the horizontal edges. We are going to use gradients to accomplish this. ![]()
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