Fonts on Wikipedia look hideous in Gnome

See this screenshot:
Some letters jammed too close together, quite fuzzy, generally hard to read. This happens no matter what level of hinting I set in gnome-font-properties, and no matter what hinting preferences I turn on or off in about:config.
Funnily enough, though, the page looks fine in Firefox under E17. I suppose that might have something to do with E17's "bytecode" antialiasing option (on by default), whatever the hell that is.

For DPI : xdpyinfo | grep -i resolution
For the bytecode interpreter, it must be enabled at compile time. I think it's ok on Arch, tough I have not checked.
iBertus, I am interested with your method to tweak the autohinter, but aren't some things missing to your local.conf (match and edit tags do not have arguments, and doctype/xml declarations are incomplete ) ?

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*[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/Fonts Math ML Fonts]
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Andy -- Chicago wrote:
> Fireworks 8 -- PC
>
> My text looks very unclear after export. However, they
look great in the 4-up
> preview windows in any of the export formats.
>
> This is with a wide variety of fonts (including basics
like Ariel, Verdana,
> etc.) and with or without bold, italics, etc. My font
sizes are in the 16 to
> 30 size range. It also doesn't seem to matter which
anti-alias setting I use.
>
> If I go all the way to 96 font size with anti-alias,
then I can get clear
> fonts.
>
> This has happened with every graphic I have created
since buying this
> application about 1 month ago. For most of that time, I
thought it was either
> just part of the deal or I didn't know how to tweak the
settings. Then I
> realized that they looked great in the preview window
with various export
> formats, so it must be something else.
>
>
>

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