problems with soft shadow

[Steve Mills]

On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:19:17, Rob Briggs wrote:

> I'm using Creator 8 on Winsows XP.
> I have 2 elements with soft shadows placed above a text block. The  
> file looks OK on screen and when printed from Creator. However,  
> when I export the file as an EPS and print from Quark OR distill  
> into a PDF, some of the text near the soft shadow is appearing  
> bold. If I move the elements with a soft shadow farther away from  
> the text block the problrm goes away. Could this be a bug or  
> possibly a setting that needs to be changed?

My guess is that when Xpress prints the eps or when you distill it to  
a pdf, those processes are not rendering the text in the same way  
that Creator renders text, so the glyphs are appearing thicker or  
thinner (you didn't say which text looked bold) than the text that  
Creator rendered under the soft shadow into the bitmap.

You could work around it by converting the text to paths before  
exporting the eps.

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