Hi Keith,
Are you using a proprietory video driver, like NVidia?
If so, there is a known problem with some fonts.  It's not really 
something I know how to fix.  But if you want to test it, look at the 
same page without using the nvidia driver and see if the fonts are 
working correctly.

Troy

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> On Mon, 28 May 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> 
>> Here's a little one hour hair puller (much less for those in the
>> know, I'm sure).
>>
>> While testing OpenOffice after upgrading to SL5, I saw that the
>> letter "r" in the menus was rendered incorrectly, looking closer
>> to a flaky "n", as if the first column of pixels was being displayed
>> last.  Only on OpenOffice, not on other applications, menu bars, etc.
>> At first I thought it was an OO bug, and spent a long time frobbing
>> on that.  I won't bore you with more details.
>>
>> It turned out to be a bad interaction between OO and the "Sans 9" font
>> used as the application font.  I changed the application font to
>> "Sans 10" in System > Preference > Font, and it is larger but clean.
> 
> Thanks for sharing info. But it's not doing that on my SL5 desktop. 
> Fonts in the menu are rendered perfectly at size 8,9,10...
> 
>   Stephan
> 
>> Keith
>>
>> P.S.
>> And larger in a bunch of other things, so a little less desktop space.
>>
>> -- 
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>> KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
>> Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
>>
> 


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