Working with the Shadow Effect of Shape or Chart

Possible Usage Scenarios

Aspose.Cells provides the Shape.ShadowEffect property along with ShadowEffect class to work with the shadow effect of shape or chart. The ShadowEffect class contains the following properties which can be set to achieve different results as per application requirements.

• Angle
• Blur
• Color
• Distance
• PresetType
• Size
• Transparency

Working with the Shadow Effect of Shape or Chart

The following sample code loads the source excel file and accesses the first shape in the first worksheet and sets the sub-properties of Shape.ShadowEffect property and then saves the workbook in the output excel file.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-cells/Aspose.Cells-for-.NET
// The path to the documents directory.
string dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);

// Load your source excel file
Workbook wb = new Workbook(dataDir + "sample.xlsx");

// Access first worksheet
Worksheet ws = wb.Worksheets[0];

// Access first shape
Shape sh = ws.Shapes[0];

// Set the shadow effect of the shape, Set its Angle, Blur, Distance and Transparency properties
ShadowEffect se = sh.ShadowEffect;
se.Angle = 150;
se.Blur = 4;
se.Distance = 45;
se.Transparency = 0.3;

// Save the workbook in xlsx format
wb.Save(dataDir + "output_out.xlsx");