#AFTER EFFECTS 2 DROP SHADOWS PDF#

This problem appears when exporting as a pdf to version 4. I have the solution! I'm new to Indesign, converting from Quark, and after a few hours of fiddling, I've come to the solution. It's Saturday and I've been pulling my hair out with this very problem.

I don't do e-book PDFs very often, so I didn't mentally file it as something important to remember.įor that particular job, I ended up just grouping the blended Photoshop files in ID and copying and pasting them into a new Photoshop file and saving them as a flattened tiff, which I then used to replace the group items in ID. There appears to be features in PDF that conflict with each other depending on the type of file you are trying to create. I did not have ID drop shadows in this document, but I'm wondering if this perhaps is your problem. I then noted that one of the little messages I got when I performed an export (which I rarely read because they usually tell me stuff I don't need to know) said that there was a conflict between some of the e-book PDF features and transparency.

The Photoshop images had white backgrounds instead of being transparent. I noticed that a bunch of my transparent effects did not translate properly. You can also remove a drop shadow from an object by clicking the Clear drop shadow button on the property bar.I remember working on a book that I had to export to a tagged e-book PDF out of InDesign for web publishing. The default merge mode Multiply produces natural-looking drop shadows. Select an object with a drop shadow, and choose a merge mode from the Transparency operation list box on the property bar. To separate a drop shadow from an objectĬlick Object Break drop shadow group apart. For more information, see To copy effects from one object to another. You can also use the Attributes eyedropper tool to copy a drop shadow. Select the object to which you want to copy or clone a drop shadow.Ĭlick Effects and click one of the following: Specify any attributes on the property bar.ĭrop shadows cannot be added to linked groups, such as blended objects, contoured objects, beveled objects, extruded objects, objects created with the Artistic media tool, or other drop shadows.Ĭlick a dark color on the onscreen color palette.Ĭlick Object Order Behind, and click the original to position the duplicate behind it. ĭrag from the center or side of the object until the drop shadow is the size you want. In the toolbox, click the Drop shadow tool. For more information about merge modes, see Applying merge modes. For information about editing a transparency, see Changing the transparency of objects.Īs with transparencies, you can apply a merge mode to a drop shadow to control how the color of the drop shadow blends with the color of the object underneath. For example, you can edit the drop shadow as you would edit a transparency. With cloning, the master object’s drop shadow attributes are automatically applied to its clone.īy separating a drop shadow from its object, you gain more control over the drop shadow itself. When you copy a drop shadow, the original and copy have no connection and can be edited independently. After you create a drop shadow, you can copy it or clone it to a selected object.

After effects 2 drop shadows