I'm loving KDE 4.3 (I have never really been a KDE user before), but there's one thing that's kind of a turn-off for me. OpenOffice will render the text of a document differently in KDE than it does in GNOME/Windows. I set the font to Times New Roman, the same size, yet it looks bolder in KDE than it does in GNOME. And I know it's not just set to bold because when bold is turned on, it gets even bolder. I thought it might just look thicker without affecting the document, but this glitch does throw off the formatting of a page. I surrounded a title in equal signs to separate it from the rest of a document (it was for taking notes in class) and the equal signs took up less space compared to the line that they surrounded in KDE than they did in GNOME or Windows. What's wrong? If it helps, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1420n and an Nvidia GeForce 8400M graphics card.

They do look different but are you really looking at them at the same resolution. OpenOffice now has a slider and it is very easy to nudge it to a value which does not match any of the standard KOffice values. I notice that there is often a step change in the way a font is displayed which is quite obvious if you use the OpenOffice slider.

Assuming that's the problem, how do I fix it? Note that it still has that awkward formatting with the = signs and it did the same thing off of a LiveCD as it did off of the regular boot.