Frank,
Are the affected objects floating objects (placed
into the text) or fixed and floating objects? Is it
possible, that the affected objects are placed at
layout borders?
In this case they are all fixed objects, some set to wrap and others not. Objects affected can be in any position or size and of any type - I have text and shape objects, PNG images with transparency. Some are at the boundary.
The amount of 'cropping' of the shadow is always the same for every object that is affected i.e. starting the same distance from the bottom edge of the object itself.
Drop shadows appear correctly in the Pages document at all times.
The curious thing is that each time the document is previewed, exported or printed, different objects are affected without the document having changed at all.
No other problems are visible - text, shapes and images are crisp and accurate.
Hang on… I just had an idea.
There were no characters entered in the page over which the fixed objects were placed. I typed a few spaces and a carriage return and the problem for PDFs seemingly goes away, but prints are still affected. I create the PDF with The LW driver with ColorSync 'In Printer' but this not available for my Epson R1800 inkjet.
I just tried printing a good PDF to the Epson from Preview app. but shadows are still cropped.
Very odd.
Joel.
