How does Dia determine Font List?

[Tim Ellis <Tim Ellis gamet com>]

This font issue is getting wierder and wierder.

How does Dia determine the list of fonts to show?

The list seems to have no relation at all to the list that GNOME's fontsel
does. There is no overlap between the Dia font list and gfontsel's
fontlist.

It stands to reason that I'd want to choose fonts that I *DO* have on
my system, but Dia shows only non-existant fonts as options.

It's as though Dia has hardcoded a list of fonts assumed to exist on
XFree86 systems...???

I've found via Google searches others who have the same error and who
asked about it, but there are never any replies with answers.

Any ideas? Any hints?

Cheers,
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Tim Ellis
DBA, Gamet