Box Shadow / Drop Shadow in PDF

[Daniel Lemke]

I have been playing around with css controls in an attempt to simplify our image doctoring. We currently use Snagit to resize, add a border, then add a drop shadow. I want to replace that process with some css similar to the following:

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img.raw
{
	border: 1px solid #909090;
	box-shadow: 5px 5px 10px #909090;			/* Firefox 4.0+, Opera, IE 9 */
	-webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 10px #909090;	/* Chrome and Safari         */
	-moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 10px #909090;		/* Firefox 3.6               */
	-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=10, Direction=135, Color='#909090')";
	filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=10, Direction=135, Color='#909090');
	max-width: 700px;
}

This works for our Webhelp output in Chrome, FF, and IE8+. However, only the max width and border are taking effect when using a PDF target. For the pdf target, I have added the following to the print medium section of our css (to convert pixels to points):

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	img.raw
{
	border: 1pt solid #909090;
	box-shadow: 5pt 5pt 10pt #909090;																		/* Firefox 4.0+, Opera, IE 9 */
	max-width: 400pt;
}

Has anyone had success using CSS to add drop shadows to elements for PDF output? Is this possible? We are using Flare 10.1.

[SandraWitte]

I've realized that this threat is a little old now. But maybe anyone has a cure to this problem:
We want to add drop shadows. It works fine in HTML-Output but doesen't appear when using the pdf target.
For print medium I added the following:

img.BoxShadow
{
margin-bottom: 2px;
margin-top: 8px;
max-width: 100%;
box-shadow: 10px 10px #999999;
background-color: white;
-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;
-webkit-filter: opacity (1);
}

[Daniel Lemke]

The box shadow is not supported for PDF output. I put a ticket in just over three years ago and still haven't heard back. They gave me a case number (61877) but I am not sure if they ever turned it into an official feature request or not. I was new to their support system back then and didn't even know to ask about that.

I recommend entering a feature request with them. I will do the same, or ask if they made one out of my case back then. The more folks asking, the more likely they are to work this into a release.

[Daniel Lemke]

They did enter a feature request for me. The number is 89823. You can reference that if you contact support.