Removing outer space from a drawn shape

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gibbons1984
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Removing outer space from a drawn shape

Postby gibbons1984 » Sun Jul 09, 2017 9:15 pm

Apologies if this seems like something really basic but I have a shape like the one attached, but when i try to use it with a shadow on a website i get a square shadow, is there a way to remove bottom left and right corners so that the whole image is not square and instead follows the actual outline of the drawn shape if that makes sense??

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Re: Removing outer space from a drawn shape

Postby brynn » Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:18 pm

When you say you're using it with a shadow on a website, do you mean that you're applying a shadow using.html

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Re: Removing outer space from a drawn shape

Postby druban » Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:49 pm

Your objects are grouped and clipped for no particular reason. The drop shadow is not working because that bottom object has no thickness although it is not a stroked object, it is filled to look like a stroke... better to keep it simple... To cast a shadow an object should be filled normally i.e. be solid.
look at the attached, you can remove the shadow by doing filters > remove filters
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