This happens because the RGB Matrix effects is vulnerable to TA as well. It won't make gigantic holes, since it doesn't do any edge effects, but it still need to figure out what parts to color, so the same pixels that make giant holes with edge fade are left out by RGB Matrix, leaving the edge fade to produce the known and loved TA holes.

Hi Christian,

I suggest you open a ticket with customer support for this, they'll get you up and running in no time. You'll find the technical support form in your registered user area.

As Joe also said, don't rename your user profile. Windows will not like that at all. Instead, it is better to make a new profile using that name and just switch to that. But the desktop is really no good place keeping these files, so doing that is more a band-aid than anything really. As Joe suggested, it is better to fix the problem.

The command Joe mentions is documented in the Blog article, under the heading "Four B – Fixing the Map", under the subheading "Everything at Once" (But I recommend reading the whole thing, don't just that section)

As for symbol catalogs, you don't normally import those into your drawing. You open the symbol catalog in the symbol catalog window using the :ICON_CATALOG: button, and simply use the symbols from there. Symbols will then be imported into the map one by one as you use them from the symbol catalog (But do note that symbols are indexed by their name, so if you have a symbol with a certain name already in your map, it will use that, even if the one in the catalog is different but with the same name)

Red X'es like this means that CC3+ isn't able to find external art files referenced from the map file.

Check this blog article for details:

I agree with Sue, for a b&w printed book, a nice and clear black and white style usually gives the best result.