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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:03:58 +0400
From: Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Text scaling during zoom in gschem
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:35:55AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> 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?

I had already provided you with two links about it. I could send you the
copy of the html, if you want.

> 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 )

On my Debian system Nimbus fonts are always used instead of Arial by
default if I have no MS fonts installed.

> 
> > 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.

If you change here:
  Microsoft -> Liberation
  ghostscript -> gschem
then you repeat my conclusion ;)

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