Adding shadows to an inserted graphic figure

When you have inserted a graphic figure (pdf format) into Pages text, you
can apply a nice shadow effect to it with the graphic portion of the
Inspector. However, sometimes it applies the shadow to a frame about the
figure and other times to each element within the figure.
Both effects are very nice but I have no control over which the Inspector chooses.
Does anyone know how to make this choice?

As far as I know, if you select a single object before applying shadow, only this objet would get a shadow.
If you select several objects, each of them will be shadowed.
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