labeling - When labelling polygons, not all labels are displayed

Monday 29 August 2016

I am trying to create a simple map of Mexico showing the state polygons and their label.

The state shapefile is from here, and the specific file is the first one from the top (Áreas Geoestadísticas Estatales (7.43 Mb)).

I edited the attribute table to create a new column with shorter state names called NOM_SHORT.

To add labels I used the "ABC" dialog as below: enter image description here

However not all states were labelled, including Oaxaca and San Luis Potosí, as shown below (painted in light grey). Why? enter image description here

Here is attribute table: enter image description here

Answer

Though I am not a programer I think this is a bug in QGIS. My solution was to use ArcGIS for this task.

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