<div class="gmail_quote">Following TC's suggestion, I've done a test.<br><br>With this map file layer:<br><br>    LAYER<br>        NAME                            "road"<br>        STATUS                        DEFAULT<br>
        TYPE                            LINE<br>
        UNITS                            METERS<br>        CONNECTIONTYPE        POSTGIS<br>        CONNECTION                "host=localhost dbname=ttt user=uuu password=xxx"<br>        DATA                            "geom FROM view_road_ar USING UNIQUE oid USING SRID=4326"<br>

<br>        LABELITEM                    "name"<br><br>        CLASS<br>            STYLE<br>                WIDTH                    16<br>                COLOR                    0 0 0<br>                ANTIALIAS            TRUE<br>

            END<br>            STYLE<br>                WIDTH                    15.8<br>                COLOR                    255 200 64<br>                ANTIALIAS            TRUE<br>            END<br>            LABEL<br>

                ANGLE                    FOLLOW<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>                ENCODING            "UTF-8"<br>                COLOR                    0 0 0<br>                OUTLINECOLOR    255 255 255<br>
                TYPE                    TRUETYPE<br></div>
                FONT                    arial<br>                SIZE                    24<br>                ANTIALIAS            TRUE<br>                POSITION            AUTO<br>                PARTIALS            FALSE<br>

                BUFFER                50<br>            END<br>        END<br>    END<br><br>With nothing changed, only change the ANGLE to AUTO and FOLLOW, the generated images confirms the different processs of ANGLE AUTO & FOLLOW.<br>

Then I've done one more test which uses ANGLE FOLLOW, but with OUTLINECOLOR removed, then generated image shows "fractured" words.</div><br>