Using Win32 binary download of 3.7 dated 12/5/02.
Both of the following layer defs produce visible layers in 3.6.x.
This layer def produces a map with labels visible:
LAYER
NAME pct_anno
GROUP "Administrative Boundaries"
DATA pc
STATUS OFF
TYPE ANNOTATION
TRANSPARENCY 100
PROJECTION #GEOGRAPHIC NAD83
proj=longlat
ellps=GRS80
no_defs
END
LABELITEM "pct_num"
CLASS
#NAME "LABELS"
#MAXSCALE 250000
#STYLE
# COLOR -1 -1 -1
#END
LABEL
#TYPE TRUETYPE
TYPE BITMAP
COLOR 255 0 0
#SIZE 12
SIZE tiny
#FONT ARIAL-BI
POSITION cc
PARTIALS FALSE
BUFFER 0
END
END
METADATA
"wms_title" "Precinct Labels"
legend_order "25"
legend_name "Precinct Labels"
END
END
This layer produces a map with no visible layers:
LAYER
NAME pct_anno
GROUP "Administrative Boundaries"
DATA pc
STATUS OFF
TYPE ANNOTATION
TRANSPARENCY 100
PROJECTION #GEOGRAPHIC NAD83
proj=longlat
ellps=GRS80
no_defs
END
LABELITEM "pct_num"
CLASS
#NAME "LABELS"
#MAXSCALE 250000
#STYLE
# COLOR -1 -1 -1
#END
LABEL
TYPE TRUETYPE
#TYPE BITMAP
COLOR 255 0 0
SIZE 12
#SIZE tiny
FONT ARIAL-BI
POSITION cc
PARTIALS FALSE
BUFFER 0
END
END
METADATA
"wms_title" "Precinct Labels"
legend_order "25"
legend_name "Precinct Labels"
END
END
