why am i getting lines in print when using dropshadow tool?

[Karl Williams]

I’d presume you are using coral to generate the shadows.
Select the image inc. shadow, go to arrange, then click break drop shadow and (how many items) apart. Then select the shadow by itself and convert it to a bitmap with transparent background. Coral can’t get confused then. 😉

[Tim Hobbs]

Hi Karl

Thanks for your reply mate.
I have actually tried that, still happens I’m afraid.

Any other ideas?
Thinking about creating the shadow with a plug-in but I’d
rather keep it all in Corel if poss.

Tim

[Karl Williams]

How big is the image?

[Tim Hobbs]

Physically 350×46 mm
Resolution 142×142 dpi
It’s being used within a larger graphic.

[Karl Williams]

Copy and paste it into a new file. This sometimes works for me. The image aint big but coral sometimes has a spaz attack. 😕

[Andy Gorman]

You could create the shadow a different way, ie, a copy of the original, converted to a bitmap and then add a gaussian blur.

Might work, you never know.

I had the same thing appear on screen when I exported as eps once, but it printed fine. Weird, no?

[Tim Hobbs]

Well!

That appears to have worked Karl.
How stupidly simple was that.

Thanks Mate

[Karl Williams]

No probs mate. Just pop a cheque in the post! :lol1:

[Tim Hobbs]

I’ll wire the money to your off-shore account.

[Ben Shaw]

Hi everyone,

I think my question is the same thing but slightly different. I use corel to create pdf’s for versaworks, and the drop shadows change the colour of whatever is underneath. This is fine if the underneath stays behind the dropshadow, but if it extends past the dropshadow, it returns to normal colour. It looks bad.

I thought it was something to do with colour management but it does it with or without icc profiles.

Any ideas?

[Glenn Sharp]

If I am understanding you correctly this will always happen because the generated dropped shadow is a transparency….so it will discolour what ever it is placed on top off

Not sure how to get around it although Andy’s suggestion of duplicating the original & adding a blur to it would probably render a solid shadow

without seeing what you are talking about it is difficult to get a true understanding but I would have thought that a shadow on top of an object should discolour it as that is how it would be in reality

[Ben Shaw]

Sorry, I’m not very good at explaining things.

If I place a drop shadow off a capital letter L, the shadow it self looks like an L, but the dropshadow as a bitmap is a rectangle. so anything that is in the top right of the L, even though there would be no shadow there, is still affected by the rectangle bitmap of the drop shadow. this part of the shadow should be clear, but the colours are being changed. A cyan object that passes through where the L isn’t gets turned into a sky blue instead.

See, I told you I’m not good at explanations.

If I can get a jpg of it happening, I will put it in a post, but if anyone can work out what I am talking about and has a solution, that would be great.

[Colin Crow]

Have just tried this in corel draw x3 and can’t replicate what you describe using interactive drop shadow tool or converting to bmp.

Colin

[Ben Shaw]

I couldn’t make it happen again either at first, but eventually I worked out how to do it, and solved my problem at the same time. For future reference (for me when I forget again) it only happens when it is an RGB object or bitmap under the dropshadow of something else AND THEN you publish it to pdf with all objects converted to cmyk. It must be something in the Corel conversion thingy (technical term) that got confused.

Thanks Glenn and Colin for getting back to me so quick.

I did make a picture of it but it wont let me add attachments. If it lets me post this URL I just put the example picture on my site.

This link is just the picture

http://www.shawfire.com.au/images/Graphic2b.jpg