Text Rendering Issue [SOLVED]

I reinstalled Arch a few days ago, and reinstalled Xorg, KDE, and most of the font packages available on the repos. However, text is rendering oddly. I cannot see any font decorations such as bold or italic. Here is a screenshot to give you an example:
How can I resolve this?

I have discovered that it's not a problem in all applications. OpenOffice works fine, as well as most KDE/Qt applications. It seems as if GNOME/GTK applications are the only ones affected.

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Note: I've failed to find a thread pertaining to this particular issue. If someone is aware of one, please excuse me and point this discussion in that direction.
I am experiencing a problem with a Windows instal of Safari 4 that seems not to manifest itself on any of my mac machines. On select sites text is rendered as a jumbled mess of overlapping characters. To simplify matters I have linked to a screenshot of the problem:
http://bit.ly/cU58x
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@Neil Enns - I have branched this into a new discussion from original thread: Re: Trouble with ipa size after changing assets
Having some issues with overlays that are set to "vector" for "Export format in PDF articles"
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Or is this perhaps just the best that type in an overlay will look with a 1024 folio on a retina screen?
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Thank you both for the advice. There is a bit of strangeness though when importing the article. We had a couple of test folios we were using and on one of the folios the import article process would default to "automatic" format. When we forced the article format to be "PDF" all of a sudden our overlays were coming out nice and crisp!
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At completely random intervals, text is rendered like this in Firefox:
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I had the same issue, uninstalling windows update kb2670838 fixed it for me. See also:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/text-rendering-issues-in-firefox-after-installing/1aaefaec-ba47-4577-82c3-44b72a50049b

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I am using web based SSRS report viewer control to display SSRS reports in browsers like Chrome, FF, IE, Safari etc. My issue is some text is getting chopped off (clipped) in all cells of some reports. I investigated on my end by analyzing generated HTML
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Hi Murtaza,
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Staff? Text rendering incompatibility Safari 7.06 and Muse 2014.1.1.6 Websafe fonts render issue

Text rendering incompatibility
Safari 7.06 and Muse 2014.1.1.6
Websafe fonts render poorly when on top of a
‘Browser Fill’ has ‘Image added’ and ‘scrolling’ check box left unchecked’
or when
Any ‘composition is set below the text and composition is set to ‘pin’
Comparison Web safe fonts render
Chrome = all good
Firefox = all good
Safari running on ‘non-retina’ displays = bad
As mentioned these are websafe font / also occurs with self/hosted fonts
unfortunately client is viewing on Ipad that is non retina and uses Safari.
Any work around?
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Milton

Hi Zak
Thank you for your prompt response.
I have been reviewing this issue on a number of screens an Browsers – I realise the huge hassle of compatibility comments.
Below links and further explanation and screen shots
Thanks again
Milton
Web safe fonts (e.g. helvetica / arial) render poorly when:
Any ‘composition’ is set below the text and the 'composition' is set to ‘pin’
See first scroll page at www.edehorton.com
The top slideshow is 'pinned' and it is this action that creates the issue for text on the whole page.
It also occurs when text is on top of a ‘Browser Fill’ that has an ‘Image added’ and ‘scrolling’ check box left unchecked’
See first scroll page a www.edehorton.com/judaica.html
creates the issue for text on the whole page.
I can remedy these situations by ‘unpinning' the 'compostion’ or placing the ‘pinned' 'composition' above the text
or in the second instance by turning the ‘scrolling’ radio check button in ‘Browser fill’ on.
Screen snap shots below
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People have seen many different issues with blank Flash content
or wrong text colors since 10.1 using Windows Vista or Win7 32bit or 64bit FP plugin = still same issue.
No1 knows why but Disabling AERO THEME is the medicine to fix it or just run Internet Explorer
when you encounter bad behaviour on Firefox, Opera or Chrome which use same FlashPlayer.
Would be good if people would reply here or email to me [email address deleted by host]
so I could post here for tracking and contact purposes.
Because without knowing what GPU - Graphic card people are using and if Disabling Aero Theme helps or not?
Remember without enough INFO these wierd rendering issues can't never be fixed up!
One site that isn't rendering fonts fine using ATI V3750 workstation graphic card with latest drivers >
http://www.hkadr.com/swf/broadcast_player122_stream.swf
This is proof that Flash fonts are rendered bad while on that site using AERO Theme > http://www.mediafire.com/?0tpsse0jt55tjvc

The easiest way to fix rendering issues is to disable Hardware Acceleration.

Is that a webkit rendering issue in Safari 5.1?

I add my voice to rendering issues encountered in Safari 5.1, here they are:
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2) Videos on Vimeo show now a black rectangle instead of the video.
3) The "Insert image" feature in this forum takes forever to load, displaying a white rectangle during several seconds. Same issue with the Evernote clip bookmarklet.
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Note: resetting Safari (including cleaning cache) doesn't solve the described problems. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on Mac Pro Quad 2.8 Ghz.

Thanks for helping diagnose this.
However, my testing indicates that this is not a bug with border-collapse: collapse. Here is why:
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If I leave the value of border-collapse unchanged but change the button elements in the cells to plain text, the bug disappears. To try this, request http://www.panlex.org/cgi-bin/plxu28-bug1.cgi .
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This doesn't explain, however, why you have found border-collapse: collapse producing slow results with other large tables and it doesn't do so with my table in http://www.panlex.org/cgi-bin/plxu28-bug1.cgi . It also doesn't explain why you saw the bug disappear when you changed border-collapse on my page but I didn't see it disappear.
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Can anyone make --this fix-- work for the FONT rendering issue?

I found this bug report and proposed fix on the webkit buglist:
http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14070
Here is a link that one says can be used to fix the
rendering issue with bold fonts.
If anyone can make this work for Safari 3 on XP please let me know....
Here are the text and link to the how to:
You can fix rendering issues by changing language for non-Unicode programs. The
instruction:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/xpintlsupp.mspx#EVE
You should restart system after applying setting.
Hope this helps someone
If not, then call apple support and complain....
maybe if their support phones are getting hot... then they
will fix this horrible bug

I don't believe this is a support issue, it's rather a Bugdev issue. Use the Bug-Report field in Safari to report this directly to the engineers. I also think the bug is known and will be solved, it's therefore not really in the range of AppleCare. (Beta Software is usually unsupported!)
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Very glad to know I'm not alone, thanks for the reply! Also, looks like the two of us aren't alone either. There's another thread over at Bleeping Computer that has the same issue:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/566588/did-new-windows-updates-and-now-my-fonts-look-bad/
Microsoft knows about the issue, see "Known issues with this security update" here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3013455
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Microsoft has released a fix in
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