First of all, this is the best help I've ever received on any forum and I've been on the Internet for almost 20 years. Thank you very much for taking the time to help people like this. I do this for a living and have deadlines to meet. I understand and agree completely. (However, it's a bit funny th...

First of all, thank you for your reply. :) You already found this not to be the best way to do things. Don't think in terms of "add this effect and that effect and that effect" because in a vector program this surely leads to problems. Think the other way round: which is the result you wan...

http://i49.tinypic.com/3582yqs.png I want to draw the red shape, then draw something ON the red shape and then I want to add an effect to the red shape and everything on top of it. The way I've done it here is to copy all the points in the red shape and individually weld each of them together with ...