Fuzzy drop shadows

[Brian Pylant]

Tom G. wrote:

> Drop shadows in Freehand MX blur the edges of the object with the shadow.
> The only workaround I've found is to clone the object being shadowed and
> set the top one to have a stroke of say 1 point and the bottom one to have
> the shadow.
>
> Any other thoughts?
>

Nope, AFAIK that's what you have to do (or something very similar to
hide the blurred edges). Despite many attempts during the beta to
explain to MM that shadows never (ever ever ever!) fall above the object
that is casting the shadow (and therefore should not blur the edges of
the object) this bug was never fixed. I also tried to convince them of
the need to separate the raster effect from the control object (as both
Illustrator and CorelDRAW can easily do) but that was shot down as well.

Brian

[Ian Kelleigh]

Tom G. wrote:

> Drop shadows in Freehand MX blur the edges of the object with the shadow.
> The only workaround I've found is to clone the object being shadowed and
> set the top one to have a stroke of say 1 point and the bottom one to have
> the shadow.
>
> Any other thoughts?
>

Set your document resolution to something higher than 72. 150-300 looks
good... 300 for high end printing (which I wouldn't do with those effects).

Hope that helps.

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