Yes, I do have a Radeon using the ati driver. It seems very likely to be the same problem I am seeing. I reported it against OpenOffice because that is the only program which exhibited the artifacts ( all KDE programs work well and they constitute the vast majority of programs that I use on a daily basis )
-- OpenOffice.org user interface fonts (esp. lowercase 'r') not rendering properly https://launchpad.net/bugs/75868 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
