>Anyone experience with Athens can help with the first issue? TRLabelShape>>drawOn: seem to be somehow responsible, but I don't see into this :(

Sure. The default fonts you ar easing are bitmap fonts. Roassal2 only works with FreeType fonts.

If you open the settings, select appearance and open standard fonts, you'll probably see

Bitmap DejaVu Sans. If you select one of the Source Code Fonts Predefined styles

you might have better results. (Standard fonts are not updated correctly, you might have to 

close/open the Standard Font tree element for it to refresh).

Stephan