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I am new to QGIS and when I set up a new composer and add a map to the page nothing appears. I have pressed the render button and the up date with no results. When I print the map there is no map but the legend I added to the page is there.

I am using the latest version of GGIS on a MAC running Lion.

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  • Have you checked that the extents are set correctly? Is the preview set to "Render" instead of "Rectangle"?
    – underdark ♦
    Jun 27, 2012 at 17:36
  • Hi Thanks for getting back to me, I have set the preview to Render and checked the Set To Map Canvas Extent button, the coordinates look correct for my map and when I hit the update preview button -- no change, still a blank on the composer.
    – Andy
    Jun 30, 2012 at 23:02
  • Ok after much playing around I find that I can display a map in the composer with data from an imported text file but not with a shape file?? HELP
    – Andy
    Jul 1, 2012 at 17:41
  • Sorry but I've made hundreds of maps from Shapefiles and never met any such problem. Might well be Mac specific. Have you tried asking on the mailing list yet?
    – underdark ♦
    Jul 1, 2012 at 17:47
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    Andy, can you please update me on what you did to solve your problem? I've looked everywhere and you are the only person I've found that has figured it out.
    – JHT
    Apr 11, 2013 at 20:20

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I was running into this problem as well and the following worked for me:

Click "Add map" from the left hand side, then draw a rectangle on the canvas, and your map should appear.

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  • Welcome to GIS.se! I think you'll find that the original poster did this step already ('add a map to the page') but found it wasn't rendering; that would have been QGIS 1.7 which had a lot of bugs.
    – Simbamangu
    May 31, 2014 at 12:38

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