Labels

[Gary Clifton]

Help please.

I am labeling small regions that I shade in with color. How do I imbed the label so it is permanently part of the image? I find it disappears when I reload or disappears under the region. Thanks!

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[Ross Nixon]

Labels are never part of the image until you save the map as raster or PDF output.
Which version of MapInfo are you using? 
Check the 'Labeling Rules' tab of your layer properties. Choose 'Allow overlapping text.'
It is possible that your font size is too big for some objects that are close to each other.

Ross

[David Sherrod]

">labeling small regions that I shade in with color."

Gary, is there any chance that what you’re doing is adding labels (text) to your polygon layer, handcrafting them, so to speak?  MapInfo allows different topological classes (polygons, lines, symbols) in the same layer (table), but that isn’t always the best solution.  You lose any control over the order in which the features in that layer are stacked, which would explain why you find them hidden beneath a polygon.  A better workflow might be to have a LABELS table for any labels you choose to place yourself instead of by the Labeling function of the layer properties.  Then you control the level at which the layers reside.  Just me guessing about your dilemma or your goal.

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[Gary Clifton]

Thank you for responses.  Back in town.  I am using the Text Tool in the Drawing Toolbar.  I am labelling a diagram that

I constructed.   The labels do not  'integrate'  with the underlying raster image, but disappear or appear under the image 

when I refresh.   Please advise. 

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[Gary Clifton]

Also, I am using MI 7.5, which takes care of all my needs.   

Gary Clifton 

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[David Sherrod]

Gary, you didn't directly address my suggestion, so I lack confidence in answering.  The raster image is one layer--er, table in MapInfo language, doubtless the lowest layer in your stack of layers (Layer Control window).

Some scenarios?

(1) Perhaps you are inserting your labels (with Text tool from Drawing toolbar) in the cosmetic layer. My advice is this: Under the MAP tab in v. 7.5, pulldown to Save Cosmetic Objects and save your labels to a new table.  Call it Labels, if feeling noncreative.  Then open Labels (it will be "recent" file in the FILE pulldown), make it active, and continue by adding additional labels to your labels layer.  It should sit ABOVE the raster image layer, yes?

(2) The raster layer won't allow text added, so you couldn't be creating your snafu there.

(3) You mentioned in original post, "shading in with color."  The color are in a layer of their own, since they can't be added to the raster image layer. Are the color shadings in the cosmetic layer?  PUt your shading polygons in a table of their own, put the labels in a table of their own and move the labels layer to the top of the stack.

If you have your labels in a table (layer) of their own, if it is the highest layer in the stack, and if there is nothing in the Cosmetic layer, then I cannot explain why the labels disappear.

No need to apologize for version 7.5.  I loved 8.5 and still do much work in v. 12.

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[Gary Clifton]

David.  I understand now. My labels are in the Cosmetic layer and need to be saved to their own layer.  As I will be exporting the images as jpg, the layers were will merged there to a common raster.   

Thanks for help. 

Gary 

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