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QuarkXPress lets you create automatic drop shadows.
Applying drop shadows
To apply a drop shadow, select the item and check Apply Drop Shadow in the
Drop Shadow tab of the Measurements palette. You can apply drop shadows to
the shape of an item — box, line, text path, table — provided that the item has a
background color applied to it. You can apply a drop shadow to text when the
box background has an opacity of less than 100%. You can apply a drop shadow
to the contours of a picture when a clipping path or alpha mask is selected and
the box background is None. You can apply a drop shadow to a group with the
drop shadow reflecting the collective shape of all of the items in the group.
Customizing drop shadows
Using the controls in the Measurements palette, you can customize how a drop
shadow looks, including its distance from the item, size in relation to the original
item, offset, angle of light source, color, shade, opacity, blur, and more. You can
also synchronize the angle with other drop shadows in the layout, making it
easy to maintain a significant light source throughout a layout and making drop
shadows seem more natural.
Incorporating drop shadows with items
Additional options control how drop shadows interact with items, including
handling opacity and text runaround. As with the other controls, these options
are located in the Measurements palette.
Use Inherit Item’s Opacity to have the drop shadow reflect different opacities ●
in the item, such as differences in the box background and border.
Use Item Knocks Out Drop Shadow to prevent a shadow from displaying ●
through semi-opaque areas of an item — to keep a shadow from peeping
through its box, for example.