Don't know if this has any relationship to your observations but if
I go to SystemPreferences->Appearance and set "Turn off text
smoothing for font sizes [6] and smaller" some text in 8 pt Geneva
in TextEdit looks fine but if I set text smoothing to 8 then it
looks like what you've described.
Hmm, I don't think this would be the same thing. What you're seeing
there is an attempt to render glyphs at a size that doesn't have
enough resolution to create good looking bitmaps. It's pretty hard to
draw an E, for example, when you only have 4 rows worth of pixels to
draw it in. I've put up a screenshot of the problem I was seeing at
<http://homepage.mac.com/sjmills/temp/bad-glyph-paths.png>. This is a
text block in our document, the window is zoomed to 800%. Notice how
the problem also causes bad glyph positioning (the 9pt 'x' is nowhere
near where it should be inside the green bounds of the text block).
BTW, the text has been emboldened in this example, so it's scaled a
bit horizontally.
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