Inner & Outer Shadows

[Chris M]

The Clip View is when you select all the objects and keyboard Q?
I exported as PDF 300dpi and it looks the same to me.

R.pdf

[handrawn]

import it back into a new xara document and see what you get - PDF is an adobe based open standard, it does not use the same 'syntax' as xara for vector for several things

q - yes, the clipping object need to be at the bottom of the stack you are clipping

you could cross check the vector with SVG and AI export

[Rik]

Here is the process I used.

[Chris M]

Importing the PDF back into Xara = dogs breakfast.
Clipping object at bottom of stack - something new I've learned and also answers why elements sometimes magically disappeared when using it. Thank you for the education.

10 steps and nice and neat. I didn't count my steps, but it was a lot more than that and would be best described as Eclectic Abstract Surrealism in it's construction.
I had fun, learnt a few things and exercised my grey matter. Thanks Rik.

[handrawn]

if you count shadows made with shadow tool as shape vector...

then you could possibly clone the R, apply shadow, convert to editable shape, ungroup, subtract shapes and then intersect out only the part of the shadow you need for the right hand side of the R

very rough and ready:

possibly.xar

but as you see, there is a bitmap in the gallery that is the shadow shape over[under?]lay - xara calles it a shape, and it behaves like one, but not a 'true' vector..

[gray]

Here's my effort Rik. Close but no cigar, but it is all vector. One could play around with it and get it fairly close.

[Rik]

Thanks for your input, Steve and gray.

gray: Let us all know what you did and how you did it.

I have also been looking at what I did.
And found that I didn't really need to create a bitmap copy.

So, I've attached the new way I did it.