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Symbols from a different style
:) I am hoping that someone will make a map of the world one day in which all the country names are replaced with the most common form of greeting.
Ok, I think Remy and I posted at the same time. Remy certainly points out something I hadn't thought about being the problem at all, but which is probably your main issue here.
If you have deleted the CC3 symbols from the map they will still be in the Symbol Manager. The easiest thing to do is to Purge, save the map, close it, and reopen it. You should be rid of all the old symbol references then, and free to place the new trees.
(Purge is a button in the Symbol Manager)
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Live Mapping: Creating your own style
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Map of a real region
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Installed CC3 on E drive, cant install CD or DD
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Convert Map Style to Look Drawn
You're right - that's pretty, but way too colourful for the parchment trick to work on this version. If we were to use an RGB Matrix Process (Yes, I got the name twisted back to front last time I mentioned it), the map would be generally a mid grey, which wouldn't work very well either.
However, there is a solution close at hand.
Fortunately for us Mike Schley did a black and white version of this style. I'm not sure if the new settlement symbols he's been doing for the free monthly content will be there, but this should be relatively easy to convert.
Start by creating a new map in the Mike Schley Inks Overland style that is the same size as your current colour map.
Then hide all the sheets you don't need to copy across from the first map (shown below) and use the Copy and Paste tools in the Edit menu to copy everything else across to the new blank Inks map.
Once you have the map in the new template you can use the Change Properties tool to swap the colour polygon fills with their black and white equivalent, and the Symbol Manager to Replace the colour symbols with their black and white versions.
Then try the parchment trick, and you should have a much clearer conversion.
This is a brief description only - don't be afraid to ask how to do something if you get stuck.




