I'm sorry Monsen. I mistook that link for the PDF. That's exactly what I needed. Thank you!

(You're the best. You, Ralf, Sue, and all the others are truly enjoyable to communicate with.)

Hello. Let me share a lesson that I just learned. I had a problem with transparency acne, and it took me a while to solve. I had an inner fade effect on a sheet, above a bitmap background. The background was green grass, and the poly above it was black so as to suggest a dome-like shape. Of course, the top poly had acne. Nothing new here. So, I made a liner sheet in between that was a copy of the top sheet with the acne. I used an RGB Matrix effect to make the line sheet bright red. I thought this should have solved the problem, as I've *done this before.* At least I thought so...

Here is a shot of the liner and background sheets with no sheet effects:

There's a black poly with red RGB Matrix on top of a greed bitmap background. I have the actual top layer hidden for this discussion. When I turned on the inner fade, I got this:

Yikes! Why would a *red* layer cause acne on top of a *green* background? Any guesses?

Solution: The RGB Matrix effect did *not* help the acne. The acne was caused by the intrinsic color of the poly, not the computed color after the RGB Matrix effect. In other words, even though the poly looked red to me, the edge fade still took it to be black when it came to acne.

I changed the poly to be explicitly red, and I removed the RGB Matrix effect. Drumroll....

The lesson that I learned: Transparency Acne relates to the color of the top layer without any effects applied to it. Don't use an RGB Matrix effect to shortcut a change to the poly color.

I learned a lesson here. Maybe it was just "Dumb Cartographer Day," and I needed to drink more coffee. Either way, I hope this helps somebody someday!

Have you tried JPG? I understand the thought that it's not perfect, but with the right settings I find that it works very well. Try different compression levels. I think that might be something worth looking at.

Good luck.

Hello. This is my first community atlas attempt. I think I'm supposed to request a reservation here.

I'd like to work on the lake and confluence between Erelenil and Duin Elisyr. Thank you.

I copied orbit radius and period from a NASA page, so yes. The symbol scales are not to scale, because you wouldn't be able to see them if they were realistic!

Again?!?

Beautiful, Ralf. Do you have any advice on internationalization of a map? It would be nice to hit a button and change the language used, as in a string table in some software.

Here's what I started with:

The following output is completely from CC3. I cropped it to just the section that I needed, then I added a crumpled paper on a new sheet, added transparency, and then did a custom RGB matrix for the entire thing. It's not 100% sepia, but more like halfway. I saved the matrix so I won't have to remember anything. It fits my needs right now.

Thanks all for the ideas and support!

(This is for future people searching for this topic. I don't want CC3+ to come across as anything but stable to those looking in from the outside.)

1. Yes, it was exactly that straightforward for me.
2. The "tin" never promised WINE.
3. CC3+ has been very stable for me in a few different situations including WINE on a Macbook. Actually, it's been 2 Macbooks, since I migrated CC3+ to a new model recently.

Again, this is for future people searching for "CC3 in WINE." It works well for me.

Hello. Did you install the Visual C runtime? I seem to recall having to do that.