i've seen corel draw after a loooong time. it'd be nice if inkscape could do the extrusion and drop shadow effects. ok, extrusion is somewhat difficult, but the drop shadow is just another clone tool variation.
Not quite, because a drop shadow has to be blurred, and we can't blur
vector objects yet. But this is doable via Make bitmap copy, I use it
all the time:
Optionally, the exported bitmap can be processed by an external
filter before it is imported. One such filter included with Inkscape
is inkscape-shadow.sh in share/extensions/ which makes a grayscale
blurred shadow for an object (requires Imagemagick). See
inkscape-shadow.README for details.
Yes, It works, very nice.