I hope someone can help me get this straightened out.
I am currently using Xara DesignerPro7, and when I try to export files created in this program with a drop shadow effect, I can not import it into my current rip program [ Rasterlink 3.5] this rip is used to print to a Mimaki JV33-160 printer.

The rip starts to open the file ,then suddenly drops the file and says " unable to process file.

Anyone having similar problems?

In order to print these type of files I have been saving them as jpgs. or tiffs. The problem I have is that saving the files in either of these formats puts extraneous dots in the file which then prints with what I can best describe as a "halo" around some of the elements that are on a white background. The general elements I am printing are for sign work that "SHOULD" print with clean crisp edges like you would expect from vector artwork.