(Copied from the Archive) Attached are screenshots from areas, where the different spacing is obvious. Forgive my ignorance, but looking at the menu appearance with each menu item taking twice the space now it is pretty intriguing (compare test-pdf-menu.png with test-pdf-menu-1.4.png).
Playing around with this a bit, I get something similar with Linux and 1.4.0rc3, but I did not see this spacing when viewing with okular instead of Adobe Reader. The suggestion looking at the cursor in Adobe Reader is that the linespacing is quite large, perhaps 3-4 times the size of the font, not that there are extra newlines. I can't seem to find any settings in AR to fix this. Greg
