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+using CADability.GeoObject;
+using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
+using Path = System.IO.Path;
+
+namespace CADability.Tests
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// A text is created, measured and exported without a frame and without GDI (issue #412, step 9): this runs in the Linux
+    /// CI, where there is no GDI+. The font is Liberation Sans, which the tests register (see <see cref="TestFonts"/>).
+    /// Afterwards the finalizers run, and the process must survive them.
+    /// </summary>
+    [TestClass]
+    public class HeadlessTextExportTests
+    {
+        private static Text MakeText(string textString)
+        {
+            Text text = Text.Construct();
+            text.Font = "Liberation Sans";
+            text.TextString = textString;
+            text.Location = new GeoPoint(10, 20, 0);
+            text.LineDirection = GeoVector.XAxis;
+            text.GlyphDirection = GeoVector.YAxis;
+            text.TextSize = 5.0;
+            return text;
+        }
+
+        [TestMethod]
+        public void ATextIsSavedAndReadWithoutFrameOrGdi()
+        {
+            Assert.IsNull(FrameImpl.MainFrame, "the tests run without a frame");
+            Project project = Project.CreateSimpleProject();
+            Text text = MakeText("Headless 412");
+            project.GetActiveModel().Add(text);
+            BoundingCube extent = text.GetBoundingCube();
+            Assert.IsFalse(extent.IsEmpty);
+            Assert.IsTrue(extent.Xmax - extent.Xmin > 20 && extent.Ymax - extent.Ymin > 2, "the text has the size of its glyphs");
+
+            MemoryStream written = new MemoryStream();
+            project.WriteToJson(written);
+            Text read = Project.ReadFromJson(new MemoryStream(written.ToArray())).GetActiveModel().AllObjects.OfType<Text>().Single();
+            Assert.AreEqual("Headless 412", read.TextString);
+            Assert.AreEqual("Liberation Sans", read.Font);
+            BoundingCube readExtent = read.GetBoundingCube();
+            Assert.AreEqual(extent.Xmin, readExtent.Xmin, 1e-9);
+            Assert.AreEqual(extent.Xmax, readExtent.Xmax, 1e-9);
+            Assert.AreEqual(extent.Ymax, readExtent.Ymax, 1e-9);
+        }
+
+        [TestMethod]
+        public void ATextIsExportedToDxfAndReadBackWithoutFrameOrGdi()
+        {
+            Project project = Project.CreateSimpleProject();
+            project.GetActiveModel().Add(MakeText("Headless 412"));
+            string file = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "HeadlessTextExportTests-" + Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N") + ".dxf");
+            try
+            {
+                Assert.IsTrue(project.Export(file, "dxf"), "the DXF file was not written");
+                Project imported = Project.ReadFromFile(file, "dxf");
+                Text text = imported.GetActiveModel().AllObjects.OfType<Text>().Single();
+                Assert.AreEqual("Headless 412", text.TextString);
+                Assert.AreEqual(5.0, text.TextSize, 1e-6);
+                Assert.AreEqual(new GeoPoint(10, 20, 0), text.Location);
+                Assert.IsFalse(text.GetBoundingCube().IsEmpty, "the imported text is measured with the font of the kernel");
+            }
+            finally
+            {
+                File.Delete(file);
+            }
+        }
+
+        [TestMethod]
+        public void TheProcessSurvivesTheFinalizersAfterTexts()
+        {
+            // the GDI version of the FontCache had a finalizer that threw without GDI and ended the process (issue #412)
+            for (int i = 0; i < 20; ++i)
+            {
+                Text text = MakeText("finalize " + i);
+                text.GetOutline();
+                text.GetBoundingCube();
+            }
+            GC.Collect();
+            GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
+            GC.Collect();
+        }
+    }
+}