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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Text scaling during zoom in gschem
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 09:13:27PM +0400, Vladimir Zhbanov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 09:24:11AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> ...
> > It's as if, when the exact font face (Liberation Sans?) is not
> > found, some default font is used, without regard to the requested
> > point size.
> 
> Exact font is Arial. This is defined in gschem/src/o_text.c in gschem
> sources. It is used for displaying, for printing output gschem uses
> Helvetica (and this is defined in libgeda/src/f_print.c). If the exact
> font is not found, X window system will substitute it with some other
> font which in its opinion fits best (and the printing system operates in
> the same way). 

Why is there a different font for screen and printing, BTW?

I sometimes carefully place text (labels, whatever...) carefully to
not overlap any other graphic element. With different fonts, and 
font metrics, this could lead to nasty surprises.

	Regards,
	Gabriel