Drop Shadow Bug on Rotated Items?

So, it looks like there's a bug with drop shadows on items that have been rotated, but only when previewing the book on an iPad. It would appear that the greater the rotation, the more pronounced the issue.
Basically, it looks like it's calculating the offset from the new object bounding box, rather than the actual object.
See a screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/jTPzL.png

That was iBooks 2 ~ iPad 2...
This is iBA 1.1 on computer/10.7.4:

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No it can't. Shadows are always relative to the page. I wrote a script once to scale the effects but not to rotate them. Could be done though.
Edit: Effects will be transformed when the items are not live on the page but inside a placed indd file. But that is seldom a workaround

Rotating drop shadow

okay, so i have a ring made up of 10 balls - sort of like a
clock - and i've made them spin one way, then in the other
direction. i want to create a realistic drop shadow that obv
animates along with the ring, but when i skew the shadow and then
animate it to rotate, the whole shape moves in a funky way. instead
of looking like the cast shadows of the individual balls in the
ring, it looks more like a second, skewed clog doing it's own
thang. i've tried motion tweening first, then skewing, and vice
versa - with the same results. i'm a newb to flash, and my luck
with motion guides has not been good. when i try breaking up the
balls into 10 individual layers and making them rotate around a
circular path, i get some error message saying i can't animate
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I can't resist the offer of love forever, so here goes:
You might try this: turn your animating ball ring into a
single movie clip, by copying all layers and then pasting them into
a new blank movie clip. Then, on a blank stage, place one instance
of that movie clip.
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center point to the very bottom of the clip. Not the bottom of the
individual ball, but the lowest point that the ball goes to in its
rotation. Think of it as the point where your rotating ring touches
the ground. Click on the Free Transform tool and move that little
white circle down to the bottom.
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the first one), but on a new, lower, layer.
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tint to it, or an alpha value (Color field in the Properties
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I just tried all this myself, based on your description. It
works.

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Currently, the only way in Muse to get a drop shadow on a text (including the text in the menu items) is using a System Font (which means we rasterize it into an image) and setting no fill color on the Text Frame.
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I can't get the drop shadow to work on text while keeping it aligned horizontal. Seems to only show up it I rotate the text. Goes away when I put back horizontal. Frustrating. Just want to drop shadow text with out rotating. Can anyone advise on this? Thanks in advance.

This was discussed here for many times.
Drop shadow on text isn't implemented, because many browsers don't support it.
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On the 'Over' state, I've got the button without a drop
shadow..
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drop shadow is still there!
is this right? It doesnt look right...

Can you share your .png file for others to confirm?
I should add, does your Down state also have the drop shadow?
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