Filter Effect - Drop Shadow Blur

[mattfesta@adobeforums.com]

I ran into an interesting problem working with a flyer layout today. I had made a few flyers and applied the Filter Effect -> Drop Shadow to some text. When I applied the drop shadow, it looked fine (in other words, there was a nice blur and no hard edge to the shadow). I went back in to make another flyer today, and found that when I tried to apply the drop shadow, I could only get the hard shodow (which is basically just the same object in light gray and offset by about 7 pixels). No matter what I tried, I could not get the blurred effect back into the drop shadow. The window that pops up has "Blur" as an option, but it is not selectable or editable.

I get the feeling that there is another step that I am missing prior to actually applying the filter.

Any help would be a life saver!!

Matt

[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

Known issue, see this thread. <http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@@.3bb4ffd3/1>

Searching is your friend. :)