Distribution/Version: Fedora Core 4 and Mandrake

Rendering of text in Dia 0.94 hardly works at all for me.
This is on a Fedora Core 4 system, but I have experienced
exactly the smake problem on Mandrake system with versions
of Dia from 0.93 and up. Also, if I simply downgrade by
installing a Dia 0.92.2 RPM on my Fedora System, the
problem goes away, suggesting that it really has to do
with Dia as opposed to some components Dia depends on
(although, of course, I guess the external dependences
might have changed).

To reproduce, all I have to do is to create a new diagram,
create a text object or two, and change the text a few times.

Sooner or later, Dia gets into a state where typing a single character
causes the apparent size (as rendereded on screen) of the characters
to shrink radically, by a factor of 10 or so. By typing another character,
the apparent size often gets back to normal, type one more and everything
shrinks again, and so on.

By moving the cursor back and forth, inserting or deleting charaters here
and there, or by adding trailing spaces, it is sometimes possible to
get the text to stay big and to be the text one want it to be, at least
for a while.

Changing the zoom settings can also restore things to normal for a while.
Changing the font size slightly (and back and forth) can also restore
things for a while.

However, quite often, even if one somehow has managed to nudge
all text into looking as it should, doing some minor edits in an
unrelated part of the diagram can cause the text appearance to become
messed up again.

Worst of all, when running Dia in batch mode to export eps,
even if the diagram was saved in a state where everything looked
good, it sometimes comes out badly mangled.

I'll try to include a diagram created by Dia 0.94 and the results
of translating that into eps using both Dia 0.94 and Dia 0.92.2
(on exactly the same Fedora 4 system immediately after having
downgraded Dia 0.94 to 0.92.2) to show what I mean.