No, not that easily. If you are willing to do it with an effect, you can very easily draw a polygon along the road and use the color key effect to knock out those parts, otherwise you'll need to either redraw or modify the polygons.

Keep in mind that the drawing tools have a trace feature, so it is quite easy to draw a new poly that follows along part of the old one, and then draw the part along the road manually.

When you load a master filter file, it loads all those slots, not just the first one, you don't load files into slots. Almost all of the existing master filters are using the first slot for the style, because the first one is the one activated by default.

But you can make your own file by filling out the different slots, and then save it as a new master filter file. When you load that file, it will contain he slots as you saved them, and the symbol style toggle button will toggle between those in the list.

No, hitting load will load ALL the slots at once from what's in the file you pick. The saved files are a collection of filters, loading loads the entire collection from each file, not just a single item to put into a single slot.

To make a custom setup, you'll just need to type the filters you want into each slot and then save it. This will save a file with the complete set of all slots you have defined, and when you load it, it will load all the slots from that file.

If it were to load just a single slot at a time, it would be impossible to make a file containing many filters at once (which is precisely what you're attempting to make), because you couldn't load it again.

Yea, this is one of the cases where you have to use Edge Fade and not Edge Fade, Inner. One of the differences between these effects is that edge processes each differently solid colored polygon individually, while edge fade, inner processes the entire combined shape on the sheet.

To use Edge Fade, Inner here, the borders would have to be on individual sheets where the number of sheets equal the N-color problem for your layout.

I agree, it is not pure black and white as to what is best, videos or text. But I can scan an A4 page of text and pick out the bits I need in seconds, while a video covering the same thing would be in the 10-20 minutes range or more, and it is impossible to scan it the same way you do a page of text. And text can easily be searched for keywords. In most cases videos simply eat up more of my precious time. I always hate when I search for help on a problem on google, and the only thing I find are links to videos. You often can't even tell if they are relevant to your problem before getting far into it.

But when it comes to demonstrating a complicated thing, videos can often be superior to see someone actually performing the task. And when seeing something visually, you don't need to understand the particular jargon either, you see what they do even if you didn't know what it was called.

Having the video divided up into chapter helps, but when creating a video it is often difficult to create good chapters. It is also a lot of extra work when creating the video, either up front because you need a much more detailed plan, or afterwards because you need to work through it and figure out how to divide it and what part really is. And people often come to the video looking for different aspects of things, which means that the chapter division that works perfectly for one doesn't provide a good organization for another (books have the same problem)

I am trying to figure out why this is happening, but as a workaround, you can change properties on the fill after placing it.

To do that, first unlock groups (button lower right corner), then use the change properties tool, select the entire forest, but do a selection by NOT fill style solid so you only end up selecting the filled ares, and not the lines, and then proceed to change it to the CA128 Parchment A Medium fill.

However, Hatch Styles are the opposite of good for performance, they will slow your map down quite a lot if you use much of them. Bitmap fills are the best option here.

You've stumbled upon the very first issue I had myself when upgrading from CC2 Pro to CC3 when that was new. I still miss that functionality because making zoomable pdf files was great.

Joe has already covered why it has to be like this in CC3+, but if you have a pure vector map with no effects in it that you need to print this way, remember that the FR Atlas IS a general purpose viewer (as you already saw). You can open files created in CC3+ there. Effects and raster artwork (both symbols and fills) will be missing obviously, but if you only need the vector entities, that works just fine.

Have you tried using TRACED instead. Maybe it'll work better for you.

Here's Austfiroir in the Atlas. Thanks Jeff.

Run the CC3MenuConfig.exe found in the data directory.

Or just run the latest update again (Just tell it to continue if it insists you already have a newer version). The update will pull the latest menu config from the internet.