On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 08:51, Bryan <bra...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks to the offline answers. I assume that the differences in resolution and dpi are causing the font issues.
Someone told me to set the following in my .Xdefaults: Xft.dpi:72 This fixed Kword, firefox, openoffice, inkscape, gimp. Now that I know what to search for exactly, here are a few links that I found: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=4456 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=20976 http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html Some of it is Linux centric, but lots of good info there...