I think your best bet would be check the mailing lists at or ask someone on the Scribus IRC at irc:///#scribus or even try the Google+ page at. However there is a 1.4.4svn at which seems to be the current development release.Īnd this page shows how you can install from source code on various OSes.Īs for 1.5.0svn I really don't know what's happened to it. It used to be available on SourgeForge but I've just looked and it seems to have gone missing. Or you could try GIMP if resolution isn't an issue. Otherwise, I'd generally recommend using Inkscape to create the text and import it into Scribus as an SVG (while noting that Scribus doesn't handle all SVG transparencies so you'll need to do tests). I think your best bet - using Scribus-only functions - would be to use multiple copies of the text with lighter shades (or transparency), as in the attached picture, but the printed effect won't be very good and it's a pain to do. Transparency, where allowed, can only be used in some of the later PDF formats so using it would depend on that. Scribus currently only has a blur effect for images you can't use it on text. (You can change the shading percentage to make the colour more 'diffuse'.) The text shadow effect in Scribus is fairly limited but can be used for simple things.
(A 'drop shadow' can be loads of different things and look very different depending on your exact requirements.) Karela, it really depends on the exact effect you're after.