Tom Horsley wrote:
For instance, I'm attaching an xmag image of the subject headers from the pan newsreader. It was perfectly readable before, now the font is all squished with closed areas in letters like "e" being almost totally filled in with black.
Have you got hinting set to none/slight/medium/full?I find I can obviously tell the difference switching none->slight, can never tell the difference from slight->medium, and only on certain characters (e.g. dots of "i") tell medium->full