Have you done the EDITSHADING part of it all on page 6? If you didn't they will be different shades depending on which way around they are facing.

If you are using a drawing tool to draw the polygon it might be restricted to operate only within the map border. No need to redraw anything. Hide everything but the sheet the border is on and use the move node tool |CC2DYNEDIT| to pick and move the nodes beyond the map border sufficiently for the visible part not to show within the map.

The first move might be guesswork, but when you show everything again you can adjust the new positions of the nodes you have moved. You hide everything the first time you move them so you don't pick anything else that happens to be aligned with the map border.

Julian is right about the 2 part annuals. It's not actually possible to do all the work in one issue due to the time limitation. Even though the style is done in two halves it doesn't make sense to generate 2 separate folder systems and two separate templates when its all the one style.

I don't recall the two parts of MD ever being sold separately. If an annual is done in 2 parts those two parts must be part of the same annual. It wouldn't be fair to expect someone to buy 2 annuals just because they happen to like that one style.

You can solve the white background by putting the symbols behind the parchment and using a Blend mode effect on the parchment set to Multiply and 100%. This is how the parchment version of SS6 was done.

The white parts of the symbols are to obscure the bits of other symbols that might appear through them.

These symbols all have white backgrounds, but the parchment is multiplied over the top of the entire map.

If you decide to use any of those sets mentioned by pvernon, there is a comprehensive section in the Tome of Ultimate Mapping covering how to create your own symbol catalogues, or if you prefer to watch there are a couple of videos created by Remy Monsen here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLulP-cGMLxw4qTpXfilRHgbDUg8WvrEX2