diff --git a/src/draw.c b/src/draw.c
index 81880e36..d61aee69 100644
--- a/src/draw.c
+++ b/src/draw.c
@@ -766,13 +766,13 @@ void draw_symbol(int what,int c, int n,int layer,short tmp_flip, short rot,
           cairo_font_face_destroy(xctx->cairo_font);
         }
         #endif
-        dbg(1, "drawing string: before translate(): text.txt_ptr=%s\n", text.txt_ptr);
+        dbg(1, "draw_symbol(): drawing string: before translate(): text.txt_ptr=%s\n", text.txt_ptr);
         my_strdup2(_ALLOC_ID_, &txtptr, translate(n, text.txt_ptr));
         /* do another round of substitutions if some @var are found, but if not found leave @var as is */
-        dbg(1, "drawing string: str=%s prop=%s\n", txtptr, text.prop_ptr ?  text.prop_ptr : "NULL");
+        dbg(1, "draw_symbol(): drawing string: str=%s prop=%s\n", txtptr, text.prop_ptr ?  text.prop_ptr : "NULL");
          my_strdup2(_ALLOC_ID_, &txtptr, translate3(txtptr, 1, xctx->inst[n].prop_ptr, 
            xctx->sym[xctx->inst[n].ptr].templ, NULL ));
-        dbg(1, "after translate3: str=%s\n", txtptr);
+        dbg(1, "draw_symbol(): after translate3: str=%s\n", txtptr);
         draw_string(textlayer, what, txtptr,
           (text.rot + ( (flip && (text.rot & 1) ) ? rot+2 : rot) ) & 0x3,
           flip^text.flip, text.hcenter, text.vcenter,
@@ -940,8 +940,9 @@ void draw_temp_symbol(int what, GC gc, int n,int layer,short tmp_flip, short rot
      #endif
      my_strdup2(_ALLOC_ID_, &txtptr, translate(n, text.txt_ptr));
       /* do another round of substitutions if some @var are found, but if not found leave @var as is */
-      my_strdup2(_ALLOC_ID_, &txtptr, translate3(txtptr, 0, xctx->inst[n].prop_ptr, 
+      my_strdup2(_ALLOC_ID_, &txtptr, translate3(txtptr, 1, xctx->inst[n].prop_ptr, 
         xctx->sym[xctx->inst[n].ptr].templ, NULL ));
+     dbg(1, "draw_temp_symbol(): after translate3: str=%s\n", txtptr);
      if(txtptr[0]) draw_temp_string(gc, what, txtptr,
        (text.rot + ( (flip && (text.rot & 1) ) ? rot+2 : rot) ) & 0x3,
        flip^text.flip, text.hcenter, text.vcenter, x0+x1, y0+y1, xscale, yscale);