[hardy][regression] letters cropped by 1 pixel from the top (gtk2, openoffice, qt3)

After hardy update about 3 weeks ago, I have most letters cropped from the top by +- 1 pixel. Gtk2, qt3, firefox, openoffice are all concerned (athena is OK). Since image speaks thousand words: http://beta.arcig.cz/~eudoxos/temp/pisma/ has screenshots of a few programs that exhibit that.

In a discussion http://www.abclinuxu.cz/forum/show/213770, I was pointed to pango-view. The problem is manifested when using the xft and cairo backend, with the X backend rendering is "fine" (3 screenshots of that at the URL mentioned above).

Please let me know if you need more information.

falx:/tmp > dpkg -l |egrep '(libxft2|libpango|libgtk2|libqt3)'
ii libgtk2-perl 1:1.161-1 Perl interface to the 2.x series of the Gimp
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.7-1ubuntu1 The GTK+ graphical user interface library
ii libgtk2.0-bin 2.12.7-1ubuntu1 The programs for the GTK+ graphical user int
ii libgtk2.0-cil 2.10.2-3ubuntu1 CLI binding for the GTK+ toolkit 2.10
ii libgtk2.0-common 2.12.7-1ubuntu1 Common files for the GTK+ graphical user int
ii libgtk2.0-dev 2.12.7-1ubuntu1 Development files for the GTK+ library
ii libpango1.0-0 1.19.3-1ubuntu1 Layout and rendering of internationalized te
ii libpango1.0-common 1.19.3-1ubuntu1 Modules and configuration files for the Pang
ii libpango1.0-dev 1.19.3-1ubuntu1 Development files for the Pango
ii libqt3-compat-headers 3:3.3.8-b-0ubuntu1 Qt 1.x and 2.x compatibility includes
ii libqt3-headers 3:3.3.8-b-0ubuntu1 Qt3 header files
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8-b-0ubuntu1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime version), V
ii libqt3-mt-dev 3:3.3.8-b-0ubuntu1 Qt development files (Threaded)
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2ubuntu4 FreeType-based font drawing library for X