Here's a note from the developer when I asked him about this issue: > Thanks for the screenshots. This *really* seems like a missing font issue to me. All of the missing text is rendered via the same font (coded as "_sans" which should target to your default sans-serif system font). > > I seem to recall that missing "msttcorefonts" on Ubuntu would cause font outline issues with Flash Player (which is a dependency for Soundslides). I've downloaded the fonts but the problem remains. Hrm...