Rik,

If you want complete Xara with some tools you miss here are Inkscape 0.46 devel possibilities at the moment concerning shadows : http://fr.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/...OmbresEtLueurs

You will find links to the other possibilities here : http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...=34600&page=11

kindly,

ivan