Also worth noting: There is only one custom palette. The custom palette is NOT the same as the one attached to the map. When you save a custom palette, a file named fcw32.pal is saved int he CC3+ data directory. Whenever you try to reload the custom palette, it is this file that will be loaded regardless of the palette attached to the map.

The palette attached to the map should be automatically loaded when the map is opened.

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.

Great find.

As you point out, they will take a bit of work to get them into CC3+ format since he's presenting them as pages with many symbols on each. But, with the CC0 license, it do mean that it can be done by one person and shared/redistributed legally.

You need to draw the selection box first so it selects everything, and then you can do the Combine -> Not -> Fill style -> Solid part.

Thinking about it though, it may be easier to: Change Properties -> Right click to bring up selection menu -> Fill Style -> right click to bring up fill dialog-> Pick the CA101 parchment form bitmap files. There is nothing else in the map that is supposed to use that fill style, so just selecting everything with the wrong parchment works just as well as selecting the forest and then removing the solid lines from the selection.

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.