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Drop shadows causing extra cutout on gradient fill .. X4
Hi Guys,
What am I doing wrong? Corel X4
I have a simple graphic with a gradient fill.
I have a smaller box with a border and a solid fill (light grey) with some text … on top.
This box has a drop shadow on it.
All looks as you’d expect on screen and in the print preview .. and when I print it out, the drop shadow is good … but there is a larger cutout in the gradient fill … almost back to white … around the drop shadow … in the shape of the object above.
I’ve played around shifting layers etc but still no joy.
Regards, Roger
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3 Replies
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Not sure I’m understanding completely but do ensure the shadow has been set to multiply and not normal, this will ensure the shadow overprints and not tries to knockout.
If you printing to non postscript printer, this may have something to do with it as well, try printing to Acrobat if you have it or download Cute pdf (free) and see if you get a good pdf.
Alan D -
Try converting everything except any cut lines to a bitmap and try again, works when I have unexpected printing
Andy
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Thanks for your help guys.
Thanks Alan … it was set to multiply .. though if that hadn’t been the default, I probably would have chosen ‘normal’.
I’d also already saved it as a pdf and printed it, but same issue. Also had tried a jpeg, but that added even more artifacts!
You got me thinking though, and I tried a heap of different settings within the menu.
I did a couple of extra tests and when using a solid colour fill … and fading it with the transparecy tool … it worked perfectly.
Doesn’t make sense, as I’ve used plenty of drop shadows before.
Thanks Andy … I should have thought of that myself 😕 , but that certainly solved this issue. Changing to a bitmap messed with the background fill colour a little… but it’s solved my problem.
Thanks heaps guys.
Roger
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