[XForms] Font issues

[oleuthold]

Hello,
     after upgrading from Mint9 to Mint13, I noticed that fontsize and 
fontstyle in my GUIs were ignored. Finally I took some time to get to 
the bottom of the problem. My observations:
1. Mint9 has the Xforms default font Helvetica installed, whereas it is 
missing in Mint 13.
2. When the default font is missing, another one is substituted (which 
one? by xforms? by X11?)
3. The fonts available to Xforms can be found using the xlsfonts command 
or the xfontsel graphic utility.
4. The Xforms demo fonts.c can be used to view the different fonts with 
different sizes.
5. Some of the fonts do not scale properly (for example 10 and 12 are 
same size, 11 smaller than 10).
6. I can install xfonts-100dpi, which contains the Helvetica font. 
However this is really against the spirit of Linux; I guess that's why 
the font was removed in later versions of the Mint distro.

Here comes my question: would it be possible to include a free default 
font with Xforms, such that GUIs look the same on all distros? Some 
designers spend a lot of time arranging the widgets to produce something 
nice, but if the particular font is missing, then this effort can be 
wasted, and the GUI may look terrible. Any other ideas how to deal with 
font issues?
Regards
     Oskar