Scribus progress report, also ImageMagick

[Q_x]

So, I had this long chat and mail conversation with scribus team. To avoid loss of time while reading whole thing:
None of my problems were solved.
They trolled me saying: I'm frustrated (!), I want to make things in ineffective way (!, they have not pointed any better solutions!), they also handled me few basic LaTeX examples (WTF!)
They let me read part of they "how to avoid our nasty bugs" wiki, which I did before.
I made the job better than they have imagined its possible.
They told me to update bug reports with better examples, which I did.
They were nice people after all.

But I think cards with scribus are possible now, but with two extra steps:
Adding shadow to card illustration in bitmap editor.
Shrinking/sharpening/make rounded corners with ImageMagick to .png exported with scribus.

I did a test run with a script:

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for %%f in (*.png) do ( convert "%%f" -sharpen 0x1 -resize 304x420! "%%~nf.png" )
convert -size 304x420 xc:none -draw "roundrectangle 0,0,304,420,10,10" mask.gif
for %%f in (*.png) do ( convert "%%f" -matte mask.gif -compose DstIn -composite "%%~nf.png" )

And without

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-sharpen 0x1

This being said, all the issues are sorted out

[Q_x]

Now the text is sharp, and the corners are little bit blurry.

[pennomi]

Well done! I'm really impressed.

[snowdrop]

Well done! I'm really impressed.

So am I, even if I seldom spell it out about anything.

I think my little brother captured it nicely during the Christmas holidays:

We were visiting my old folks and all of the family was sitting around the table, eating. My mother asked me if my food tasted well. I said it's ok, it tastes good. She continued to ask questions, to squeeze more info out of me. Eventually my brother said: "The food is fine. Don't you see - the silence means all is perfect. Only time something would be said is if it's bad."

It's really something I have to work on, but yeah, as true as can be said.