Issue With Drop Shadow & Rotating

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SirChimera
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Issue With Drop Shadow & Rotating

Postby SirChimera » Thu Aug 11, 2016 2:29 pm

Hello, everyone.

I'm having an issue when using the drop shadow filter. It comes out fine until I rotate the object. Then it omits horizontal lines of the image, thin but noticeable. It doesn't matter if I rotate before or after applying the filter. The line omissions remain after exporting to a PNG.

Here's an image to better understand what's happening:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vhkyren0ion3 ... r.png?dl=0

Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it? Thanks.

Lazur
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Re: Issue With Drop Shadow & Rotating

Postby Lazur » Thu Aug 11, 2016 8:04 pm

Hi.

Filter direction is set with the filter -if you rotate the object by a transformation matrix then it will appear as on the screenshot.
If you avoid doing so, it can work.

Like put the text in a group, filter the group, then
enter the group and rotate the text alone.

Or if you don't want adding a group, then rotate with the node tool, after you selected all nodes.
That will "apply" the rotation and won't result in unwanted transformation matrices.

SirChimera
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Re: Issue With Drop Shadow & Rotating

Postby SirChimera » Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:52 am

I wasn't quite sure what you meant on the first method, but the second worked wonders for me. Thank you, Lazur!

Lazur
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Re: Issue With Drop Shadow & Rotating

Postby Lazur » Fri Aug 12, 2016 3:02 am

You are welcome!


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