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From: dholtmannrice <flyingtabmow@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
Subject: Re: text rendering changes after last mac os x java update
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On Sep 25, 2:13=A0pm, "Pete " <pete.dot.bankh...@btinternet.dot.com>
wrote:
> dholtmannrice <flyingtab...@gmail.com> wrote in message <af9eba7d-bada-45=
80-9206-714b78a43...@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). =A0Everything 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. =A0It's not unusable, it just looks...
> > wrong. =A0Anyone 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 everyth=
ing except 'HTML Proportional Text', which is set to 12 points. =A0It 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

Yeah, that's what I've done now as well... the really annoying bit
though is the size of the document bar... everything's become a
gigantic button now, and it's wasting tons of space.  It's a real pain
to have a bunch of documents open at the same time...

Anyone who actually knows what's going on?  How to fix it?