Text rendering wacko in f18?

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/20/2013 01:40 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I know google-chrome isn't a fedora product, but it is probably using
> fedora libraries, so I thought I'd ask about this weirdness:
>
> On fedora 18 the folder names in the bookmarks bar are randomly
> truncated (it can spell out "Computer" in full, but truncates "Food"
> to just "Fo..." as an example of the wackyness :-).
>
> Does this ring any bells for anyone?
>
> I've submitted an issue (with screenshot) to chrome:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=171117&thanks=171117&ts=1358616427

I've had this for the longest time.  It hadn't bothered me.  I don't know what causes it.  But I can tell you how I "fixed" it.  For each label which is truncated I simply renamed the label using all UPPER CASE.

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