Drop Shadow Opacity has no effect?

It appears that the Opacity slider for Drop Shadow has no effeect on the Canvas preview. It changes the look of the icon preview, but not the actual object on the Canvas. It is either off at 0%, or on full at 1% and up. What am I doing wrong?
Also, what is that little red R beside drop shadow. Does that have somethign to do with it?

It's a rasterisation indicator.
http://help.apple.com/motion/mac/5.0/en/motion/usermanual/#chapter=A%26section=1
Try increasing the distance. It's going to depend on what exactly is inside the group. Sometimes you have to apply drop shadows to specific layers.

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I used the pdf facility in Quark (export as PDF) but I also tried creating a .ps file through the print facility in Quark and then distilling the file in Adobe Distiller and this didn't work either.

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Thank you Todd, you guessed right. As soon as I stop cont raster, drop shadow behaves as I'm used to.
I've just watched your valuable link, and have now a suggestion to make, if you don't mind.
Transform fx is an effective way to switch transform before other fx, but it adds one more filtering pass to your regular transforms filtering (unless layer transforms are all at default settings I guess), tending to soft result.
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All the colours in the picture are process colours. I found the page you refer to earlier, but it didn't seem to apply to my problem. Thanks anyway.
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Hi Jacob,
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