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can you contour cut a drop shadow?

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i cant seem to get a drop shadow to contour cut in corel draw.

i cant get contour lines to go around it?

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Corel drop shadows are bitmaps, not vector objects, so they won't contour.

You can instead create a duplicate object, then drag or arrow offset to the place you want it, order to back, and finally set the color.

About three-quarters of the way through this video, he shows how it's done:

http://www.advancedartist.com/video/freetail.html

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What you could do, since you want to contour cut around that, is select the inside text and apply an offset contour to it to serve as a cut mask - menu item Windows -> Dockers -> Contour.  Then break contour group apart and change the Fill to White (so it doesn't print) and send it to the back of the page.  You'll end up with something like the attached (blue background added to show what I mean).

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