for a couple of months now i have lived with some weirdness in okular... i have removed: ~/.kde/share/apps/okular ~/.kde/share/config/okular* uninstalled and re-installed most components and dependencies, created fresh accounts, yet to no avail am unable to solve this issue... on this computer my pdf's look as so... http://queuemail.com/snapshot8.png and on two other identically configured computers the same pdf looks normal... all are running and updated libraries from these repos... Linux 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Aug 15 01:06:26 EDT 2009 repo id repo name status fedora Fedora 11 - x86_64 enabled: fusion Compiz Fusion repository enabled: google Google - i386 enabled: google64 Google - x86_64 enabled: kde kde enabled: kde-testing kde-testing enabled: rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free enabled: rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free enabled: rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonf enabled: rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonf enabled: skype Skype Repository enabled: updates Fedora 11 - x86_64 - Updates enabled: i am not running selinux and the only thing i can think of is the video card... C0: radeon driver(snapshot) C1: nv driver C2: radeon driver any thoughts or alternate ways of thinking would be appreciated... cheers paul