Do you have, or have you had, KDE installed? It messes with Gnome's font settings in ~/.fonts (iirc). If you have that file could you try removing it and restarting Gnome? The problem is gone on my Feisty install, including with Abiword.
However, although its a separate issue, I really think this problem with KDE messing up Gnome's fonts needs fixing. -- font hinting does not work with libfreetype6 v. 2.2.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/54776 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs