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Am I right in thinking that I can only have drop shadows with text, where the background isn't coloured?

Certainly that's the way it seems to work here (Version 2.4.2). I can add a shadow to text with the default transparent background -
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but if I then change to a coloured background the shadow transfers to the layer -
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- which is pretty annoying, and has just wasted an hour of my time!

Or am I, as usual, wrong??

David

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The Drop Shadow is an effect for the object, and the object is a Text Frame. When it has no Fill, the only things that could cast a shadow are the letters, but once you add the Fill, the Fill also casts a shadow.

You could use a separate Rectangle, below that Text Frame, and color it.

 

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