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dholtmannrice <flyingtabmow@gmail.com> wrote in message <af9eba7d-bada-4580-9206-714b78a432c2@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>...
> I just applied the latest Mac OS X Java update (appeared in Software
> Update today), hoping that it might fix the annoying MATLAB/Spaces bug
> (Command+Tab won't switch to MATLAB), but instead it seems to have
> changed how text renders (in the editor, command, and workspace
> windows).  Everything is way larger now (I'm using a 10 point font,
> but I can only fit about 60 lines of text on a 1600 x 1200 monitor...
> before the update around 90 fit just fine), and letters look slightly
> more spaced out horizontally.  It's not unusable, it just looks...
> wrong.  Anyone else have a similar problem/know how to change it?

The same thing happened to me.
For now, I've changed the default font sizes down to 8 points for everything except 'HTML Proportional Text', which is set to 12 points.  It looks fairly similar to how it looked before.

MATLAB 2008a
Mac OS X 10.5.5
2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo
Java Version 1.5.0_16