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    Default Re: Shadow and Feathering Weirdness. Stretching horizontal and vertical is different.

    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    there is a possible alternative - instead of using the shadow tool create a shadow yourself and manipulate it in step with your main object
    I suggested that but it still acts in the same fashion.
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    I find the shadow tool limited in what it can do anyway.. but it depends what you want / are doing
    Regardless of the end result, I totally agree.

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    Default Re: Shadow and Feathering Weirdness. Stretching horizontal and vertical is different.

    Quote Originally Posted by Acorn View Post
    I suggested that but it still acts in the same fashion.
    sorry I must have missed that

    but what I was suggesting was to manipulate the shadow in step but separately rather than linked, so that it would not act in the same fasion because it would be adjusted independantly - more work but more flexible, and how it was done before we had a shadow tool [not that I would remember ]
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    Default Re: Shadow and Feathering Weirdness. Stretching horizontal and vertical is different.

    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    sorry I must have missed that

    but what I was suggesting was to manipulate the shadow in step but separately rather than linked, so that it would not act in the same fasion because it would be adjusted independantly - more work but more flexible, and how it was done before we had a shadow tool [not that I would remember ]
    I am still with you.

    Here is what is niggling for Xara Shadow or Displaced Boxes.

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    Growing horizontally by 200% changes the direction of infinity.

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    Default Re: Shadow and Feathering Weirdness. Stretching horizontal and vertical is different.

    indeed.. but I don't think the shadow tool is indended for illustration/artisitic work, it is more a shortcut for creating emphasis on graphics in a similar way to putting an outline on a box
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    Default Re: Shadow and Feathering Weirdness. Stretching horizontal and vertical is different.

    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    indeed.. but I don't think the shadow tool is indended for illustration/artisitic work, it is more a shortcut for creating emphasis on graphics in a similar way to putting an outline on a box
    My workaround it to keep a Shadow Group copy of a Line off page and use Ctrl+C > Ctrl+Shift+A as sadly the Shape Fill attribute copies over as well as the Shadow ones.

    With a Line, it is quicker to remove or change the Line Width.
    It is possible to do this with a Line of None Line Width but both it and the Shadow become invisible bit they are still functional, if you can find them.

    Acorn
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