[Scribus] 3D text effects

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Hello All,

Is there a way in Scribus to give text a 3D appearance? If not, can someone
suggest other free (as in free beer) software that can do it, and preferably
save the result in a scalable form that can be imported into Scribus?

Right now, I am using shadows.

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Hi there!
Well, you can consider a 3d effected text like an illustration, which
can be produced from different sources than a pagination software, like
scribus. But if you a looking for a fast options, use XaraLX, it has an
effect callded bevel that has a lot of features like shadow direction
and so on.
Export it as a 300ppi bitmap and you'll probably have no problems with it

Regards
Celso
Brazil

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Hello All,
Is there a way in Scribus to give text a 3D appearance? If not, can
someone suggest other free (as in free beer) software that can do it,
and preferably save the result in a scalable form that can be imported
into Scribus?
Right now, I am using shadows.
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Post by unknown
Hello All,
Is there a way in Scribus to give text a 3D appearance? If not, can
someone suggest other free (as in free beer) software that can do it,
and preferably save the result in a scalable form that can be imported
into Scribus?
Right now, I am using shadows.

Hi John,

perhaps its worth for you to take a look at Inkscape (
http://www.inkscape.org/). Inkscape saves it's pictures as SVG which can
be directly imported into Scribus.

Best,

Tom

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Post by unknown
Hello All,
Is there a way in Scribus to give text a 3D appearance? If not, can
someone suggest other free (as in free beer) software that can do it,
and preferably save the result in a scalable form that can be imported
into Scribus?
Right now, I am using shadows.

Hi John,
perhaps its worth for you to take a look at Inkscape (
http://www.inkscape.org/). Inkscape saves it's pictures as SVG which can
be directly imported into Scribus.

The ultimate (perhaps) for this kind of thing is going to be something
like Blender, which has a bit of a learning curve to be sure, but can do
things that most other graphics manipulation programs only pretend to do.

Greg

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Post by unknown
Hello All,
Is there a way in Scribus to give text a 3D appearance? If not, can
someone suggest other free (as in free beer) software that can do it,
and preferably save the result in a scalable form that can be imported
into Scribus?
Right now, I am using shadows.

Hi John,
perhaps its worth for you to take a look at Inkscape (
http://www.inkscape.org/). Inkscape saves it's pictures as SVG which can
be directly imported into Scribus.

The ultimate (perhaps) for this kind of thing is going to be something
like Blender, which has a bit of a learning curve to be sure, but can do
things that most other graphics manipulation programs only pretend to do.
Greg
_______________________________________________

Someone suggested XaraLX. I tried the Windows trial version (I didn't
mention that I am a Windows user). It worked very well, and it was
very easy to use.

It seems that the open source Linux version is incomplete, but it should
be able to do what I want. Unfortunately, I have to reinstall Kubuntu to
test it.

I see that Blender runs on Windows. I will try it in a little while.

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Post by unknown
Hello All,
Is there a way in Scribus to give text a 3D appearance? If
not, can someone suggest other free (as in free beer)
software that can do it, and preferably save the result in a
scalable form that can be imported into Scribus?
Right now, I am using shadows.

Hi John,
perhaps its worth for you to take a look at Inkscape (
http://www.inkscape.org/). Inkscape saves it's pictures as SVG
which can be directly imported into Scribus.

The ultimate (perhaps) for this kind of thing is going to be
something like Blender, which has a bit of a learning curve to be
sure, but can do things that most other graphics manipulation
programs only pretend to do.
Greg
_______________________________________________

Someone suggested XaraLX. I tried the Windows trial version (I
didn't mention that I am a Windows user). It worked very well, and
it was very easy to use.
It seems that the open source Linux version is incomplete, but it
should be able to do what I want. Unfortunately, I have to
reinstall Kubuntu to test it.
I see that Blender runs on Windows. I will try it in a little while.

If you're running windows you can look at FontMagic:

http://www.mattcawley.com/fontmagic/

I've not tried it myself, but others say it's OK. I have no idea what formats it
saves in, sorry :)

Brett

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Post by unknown
Hello All,
Is there a way in Scribus to give text a 3D appearance? If not, can
someone suggest other free (as in free beer) software that can do it,
and preferably save the result in a scalable form that can be imported
into Scribus?

The ultimate (perhaps) for this kind of thing is going to be something
like Blender, which has a bit of a learning curve to be sure...
Greg
_______________________________________________

You weren't joking. "Ultimate" is way too much for me. All I want to do is
highlight some some text, select "3D-ify" from a menu, and choose some
angles
and colours.

It's not WYSIWYG, and the render looks totally different from the design as
far
as rotation about any particular axis is concerned. I may eventually get the
text
horizontal, but have no idea how to change the colour.

I think it is going to be much easier to re-install Kubuntu.

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[unknown]

OK. I tried it. The others produced nicer images, but at least I can use it.
I may be better off with a plain Scribus shadow, but we'll see.

You can export only as bitmap. I suppose that the fact that it is not
scalable would not matter if I created the bitmap at life size.

Thanks for your suggestion.

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Post by unknown
OK. I tried it. The others produced nicer images, but at least I can
use it. I may be better off with a plain Scribus shadow, but we'll see.
You can export only as bitmap. I suppose that the fact that it is not
scalable would not matter if I created the bitmap at life size.
Thanks for your suggestion.

It may be also worth checking out some techniques with Gimp:
http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/
Go to 8.7 -


Rendering Project III: Chiseled Text

for an example.

Greg

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Hi John,
perhaps its worth for you to take a look at Inkscape (
http://www.inkscape.org/). Inkscape saves it's pictures as SVG which
can be directly imported into Scribus.

The ultimate (perhaps) for this kind of thing is going to be something
like Blender, which has a bit of a learning curve to be sure, but can do
things that most other graphics manipulation programs only pretend to do.
Greg
_______________________________________________

Someone suggested XaraLX. I tried the Windows trial version (I didn't
mention that I am a Windows user). ?It worked very well, and it was
very easy to use.
It seems that the open source Linux version is incomplete, but it should
be able to do what I want. Unfortunately, I have to reinstall Kubuntu to
test it.
I see that Blender runs on Windows. I will try it in a little while.

Why not simply use OpenOffice Fontwork? It's available in both Windows and
Linux, and does pretty much the same as MS Wordart...
Martin

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Martin Tlustos wrote:

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Post by unknown
Someone suggested XaraLX. I tried the Windows trial version (I didn't
mention that I am a Windows user). It worked very well, and it was
very easy to use.

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Post by unknown
Why not simply use OpenOffice Fontwork? It's available in both Windows and
Linux, and does pretty much the same as MS Wordart...
Martin

Please see http://download.yousendit.com/CA02830F5B2882E6

I would have been satisfied with OOo Fontwork, FontMagic, or MS Wordart, but
now that I have seen what real 3D programs can do (in the hands of a novice,
anyway)...

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Subject: Re: [Scribus] 3D text effects
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:35:36 -0400

Post by unknown
Hello All,
Is there a way in Scribus to give text a 3D appearance?

The ultimate (perhaps) for this kind of thing is going to be something
like Blender, which has a bit of a learning curve to be sure, but can do
things that most other graphics manipulation programs only pretend to do.
Greg
_______________________________________________

I finally succeeded in getting Blender to do what I wanted by following a
tutorial that had nothing to do with what I was doing. It helped me to find
the right buttons. The only problem is that I need to do it again, but I
can't.

Oh, well. With luck, I will be able to find the right buttons again after I
get
some sleep.

That's one open source project where you don't have to wonder how they
get funding. They must sell the manual by the trailer load.

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