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From: Brian Arnold <Brian.Arnold@mathworks.com>
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Subject: Re: text rendering changes after last mac os x java update
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:50:06 -0400
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Hi,

The MathWorks is still evaluating the Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2 
update released yesterday via Software Update.  Usually, stuff just 
works, and once in a long while, things break unexpectedly.

We have confirmed the issues described here on comp.soft-sys.matlab 
affecting MATLAB regarding Editor document tab appearance, and the 
Command Window/Editor font size.  We are confident, however, that this 
Java update does improve reliability and resolves other issues impacting 
MATLAB users.

- The MATLAB Editor document tabs button issue is something we kind-of 
"caused" :-(.  MATLAB "disables" the default behavior of the button 
style used for these tabs, for the purpose of implementing the tab 
appearance, and this update broke our code.  We have reported this to 
Apple, but we need to re-think our implementation.  This kind of thing 
happens; fortunately, in this case, the impact is cosmetic.

- The Command Window and Editor font size issue is still under 
investigation, and we are working with Apple to try to resolve this in 
another java update or patch.

Please be assured:

- The MathWorks endeavors to pro-actively evaluate Apple pre-release 
seeds and Java developer previews provided by Apple to developers under 
non-disclosure agreements--as such, we can't report to you on what we 
know (or don't know) before Software Updates have been released, but we 
do work closely with Apple, and report issues to Apple.  Both companies 
cooperate to resolve issues before they impact customers.  Sometimes, 
the release train doesn't stop.

- Apple endeavors to pro-actively evaluate the impact of software 
updates on MATLAB products, and works with The MathWorks when issues are 
discovered, but again, sometimes the release train doesn't stop.

- On the bright side, Apple releases a lot of trains via Software Update.

Once we know more about the font issue, we will let you know.  We 
appreciate your patience,

- Brian

dholtmannrice wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2:13 pm, "Pete " <pete.dot.bankh...@btinternet.dot.com>
> wrote:
>> dholtmannrice <flyingtab...@gmail.com> wrote in message <af9eba7d-bada-4580-9206-714b78a43...@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).  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
> 
> 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?