Yes! I used to work in the sign industry and the sign program had a shadow tool that did this as live. You could change the angle or it could be perspective shadow or a drop shadow. The program is called flexisign. Why illustrator could never do this I have never understood. Trying to do this with the blend tool takes to many steps and the edge is not smooth. You can do this and create one path instead of merging many. It also, needs to have an option to add an outline or a space between type/object or not. We use this alot in apparel graphic design.
Yes! I used to work in the sign industry and the sign program had a shadow tool that did this as live. You could change the angle or it could be perspective shadow or a drop shadow. The program is called flexisign. Why illustrator could never do this I have never understood. Trying to do this with the blend tool takes to many steps and the edge is not smooth. You can do this and create one path instead of merging many. It also, needs to have an option to add an outline or a space between type/object or not. We use this alot in apparel graphic design.