Strange fonts in kpdf and amarok..

The fonts in kpdf looks very strange.. its not on a straight line but wavy.. Acroreader shows them correct.
And the fonts in amarok, doesnt seem to find correct fonts..
[14:20 root ~]# pacman -Qs fonts
local/fontsproto 2.0.2-1
X11 font extension wire protocol
local/gsfonts 8.11-4
Ghostscript standard Type1 fonts
local/t1lib 5.1.0-2
Library for generating character- and string-glyphs from Adobe Type 1 fonts
local/ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-5
Bitstream vera fonts
local/ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-1
Un-extracted TTF Fonts from Microsoft
local/xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.1-1
X.org font alias files
local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.2-2
X.org font encoding files
local/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-3
X.org misc fonts
[14:20 root ~]#
I have installed locale for Swedish Turkish English.. Dont know why amarok doesnt show correct turkish fonts..
tr_TR.UTF-8 UTF-8
tr_TR ISO-8859-9

I use the standard.. Havent changed the fonts.
Bitstream Vera Sans 9.

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