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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Text scaling during zoom in gschem
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:35:55 +0200
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Vladimir Zhbanov wrote:

> 2) gschem uses Arial for displaying.

I looked it up in the source. And indeed, it does:
/-----------------
geda-gaf$ grep Arial * -R
(...)
gschem/src/o_text.c:# define FONT_NAME "Arial"
Binary file gschem/src/gschem-o_text.o matches
\-----------------

What is the reasoning for this choice? Maybe a historic relic?
Anyway, these days, there is no shortage of quality fonts which are 
free as in freedom. How about Nimbus-Sans? The relevant portion of 
this popular font family has been released under GPL. In addition it 
is said to feature almost the same metrics as arial.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_Sans )
 

> 5) If gschem has any problems with some Liberation font and has no
> problems with the original MS fonts then the Liberation fonts are
> guilty because they claim metric compatibility.

Not necessarily.
Many years back in time, there was a similar case with EPS files 
created by Microsoft applications. Ghostscript got stuck on these 
files while many other applcations were fine. Still, the bug was not 
in ghostscript but in the microsoft files.

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