Check my recent blog article, it describes ways to fix Red X's.

Do note that moving the files to the installation directory is not really a good idea, the setup with the data files in a separate directory is for a good reason. Also, maps that uses the old relative paths (starting with # meaning installation directory) should also automatically be redirected to the data directory, so it may indicate that your map didn't use proper CC3 paths in the first place, so fixing the path sin the map is a better option for the future compared to moving the files, even though it may take more effort.

With border, I assume you mean an outline and not a political border here. There are several way to accomplish this, but the quickest is usually just make a copy of the landmass using :CC2COPY: or using :CC2OUTLINE: and then just change the properties of the copy/outline to give it the appearance you want.

Another option is to use effects, throw an outer glow on it for example.

No. The ability to stick to the map border is a feature of the drawing tolls which the basic commands don't have. Of course, you can always make your own drawing tool by going to :CC2DRAWTOOLS: and set it up as you wish. It can be set up to use the current properties, so you can make it behave almost like a basic command, but with the added features of the more advanced drawing tools.

If they overlap completely, use the different selection modifiers like selecting by fill, color or layer. You'll find all the details for this in the editing chapter in the manual, or an even more detailed overview here: https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/7404/command-of-the-week-selections-week-28

Note that if the entities are on different sheets or layers, you can just hide the appropriate sheets/layers so you only see the right one.

Dragging and dropping an image into CC3+ is the equivalent of doing a Draw -> insert image, but it skips the dialog box. Unfortunately, this also means it skips the dialog where you can turn off the border, and uses the default which is applying a border to inserted images.

You can turn this off by using :CC2EDIT: on the images, and turn on the hide outline option. Unfortunately, this can only be used on one image at a time (Don't worry about the purple selection rectangle this operation seems to leave behind, that goes away the next time you select something else)

The better way to insert symbols to avoid this in the first place is to do as Raiko suggested, and use the :ICON_CATALOG: button and browse for your folder. This will show all the images in that folder in the symbol catalog window, and you can insert them the same way as regular symbols.

If this is symbols you are going to use often, the even better option is to make proper CC3+ symbol catalogs for them. This allows you to set up scaling and things correctly in the symbols themselves, so you don't have to re-scale every image inserted, among other things.

Are those lines 0-width lines? Try making them a bit wider, thin lines can disappear when output to an image, which again would prevent them from having any effect.

This is because these maps were made in CC2, before things like effects. So to have a outline on the text, it is actually two text entities with the exact same text, one with regular filled text, and the other set to only show the outline. This was done to make the text more readable.

However, this means that you will need to do the edit twice, once for each text entity. If you have trouble selecting the right one for edit, try hiding some of the TEXT layers (either everyone marked OUTLINE, or everyone NOT marked as such.

As Wyvern said above, it is better that you start your own topic if you have any follow-up questions that are related to your own work and not the atlas repair project.

Thanks Kevin. The map is now in the atlas. Welcome as a contributor, it is much appreciated.

That linked area do get a bit small though, very hard to see. Maybe someone wants to make an intermediate map showing the surrounding reef area in more detail.

(This will be the last map I add for a couple of weeks)

Maybe not exactly the way you describe, but you can add large amount of text to your map using map notes. These don't display in-map, but in a separate window, but you can make hotspots to click to show the note you want, and each map note can have up to 8000 characters. Not quite unlimited, but room for quite a bit of text.

I do this frequently for atlas maps, for example, try downloading and opening the Southern Scar map from the atlas, and hit the Description link in the sidebar, and you'll see a description of the map appear. This is a standard hotspot that can be placed anywhere in a map.

Some more information in this blog article:

Looks like I'll be streaming again.

In this session, we have a peaceful forest where nothing at all happens. Completely safe, I swear. Just leave your weapons at the entrance.

As usual, the stream is available on YouTube. You should find the time in your timezone in the left forum sidebar, or by visiting the video page. See you all there.

Anything that makes two entities do it by adding both a main entity and the outline. In Sue's first screenshot above, you can see there are two buttons, "Properties", which lets you change the settings for the main entity, and Outline, which lets you change settings for the outline entity (Which doesn't actually have to be an outline, it was just named like that because that was it's initial purpose)

When you are dealing with with and outline entities, just change it both places. Keep in mind that the values were probably just a tad different originally, so keep that difference in your changed versions.

It is not possible to call such things from the command line. CC3+ wasn't written with batch processing in mind.

You can talk to CC3+ from an external program using the Intercom interface however, which means you can send commands from an external program which are then run as commands inside CC3+. I don't have a tutorial for that on hand. Some information can be found in this old blog by @saunderl http://cc3-developer.blogspot.com/search/label/Intercom

The second alternative is to make your own XP which opens up a lot of possibilities for expanding CC3+ with your own code. I don't think you'll be able to implement more command line options or prevent the gui from loading though, those things are (most probably) beyond what an XP can do.