Marks around drop shadows

This has probably been asked before but when I create a drop shadow around an object in Adobe Indesign CS3 it looks fine in the program but when I export to PDF I get like a square of discoloured white surrounding the effect. I'm not sure if this would appear when printed but I assume it would.
Is there any way of getting rid of this? Or is this something to do with CMYK's lack of greys?
Thanks
Ricky55

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easy task but I've
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followed the
directions
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shadow on the
bottom
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Hi,
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jamestom77 wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get a similar look and feel as this
website
>
http://www.livingsteel.org/
but can't seem to crack the drop shadow for the
> main table/container. It's the one down that covers the
bottom and right side
> and makes the site look very tidy.
>
> I'm trying to do everything in .css from now on and any
help with this would
> be great.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> JW.
>

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When I make a copy from my color printer of my PDF that has a image with a grey drop shadow on a grey shaded background. I get a shaded box around the image. This does not happen when I print from my b&w laser printer. The PDF was exported from Indesign, I had digital prints from the Indesign file and they are ok.

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JimSned wrote:
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