FONTSET problem on mac os x - empty rectangles in the image

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Is this a transparent overlay layer? is IMAGECOLOR 0 0 0? if so then 
that color is transparent and you leters are also transparent. If that 
is the case change your label COLOR 1 1 1 and it should fix the problem.

-Steve

Webb Sprague wrote:
> Hi again
> 
> I am trying to get labels based on a the "name" field in a postgis
> table (of GNIS placenames). Everything works great (the overlay, the
> triangle symbol, etc), but in the image, I get empty boxes where the
> letters should be (though I get a one-to-one box to letter).  If
> anyone can help, I would sure appreciate it.  (I am  running a generic
> mapserver from installed by fink.)
> 
>  Here is the view definition in sql:
> 
> SELECT placenames.gid AS oid, placenames.name, placenames.desig,
> placenames.elev, placenames.the_geom
>    FROM placenames
>   WHERE placenames.desig::text = 'airport'::text
>   ORDER BY placenames.gid;
> 
> Here is the my font file (yes, the files do exist):
> 
> MAPSCRIPT[2]$ cat fonts.list
> arial    /Library/Fonts/ArialHB.ttf
> arial2    /Library/Fonts/Arial
> MAPSCRIPT[2]$
> 
> Here is the layer in my mapfile:
> 
>         LAYER
>                 NAME "airports"
>                 CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
>                 CONNECTION "user=wsprague dbname=or_gis host=localhost"
>                 DATA "the_geom from airports_view"
>                 STATUS DEFAULT
>                 TYPE POINT
> 
>                 LABELITEM "name"
>                 LABELCACHE ON
> 
>                 CLASS
>                         NAME "LocationSymbol"
>                         SYMBOL "triangle"
>                         COLOR 100 100 82
> 
>                    LABEL
>                                 # OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>                                 # MINDISTANCE 200 # Label only at close range
>                                 COLOR 0 0 0
>                                 TYPE TRUETYPE
>                                 SIZE 12
>                                 FONT "arial"
>                                 POSITION cc
>                                 ANGLE AUTO
>                                 PARTIALS FALSE
>                         END #end label
> 
>                 END
>         END