Font-Size option in Figure labels is ignored

Hi,

I am using Matlab R2011a under Ubuntu 11.10 and when I create Figures the "FontSize" option for any object is ignored. In the property editor changes in font size sometimes show up shortly but then dissapear again.

A minimal example is:

fig1=figure; annotation(fig1,'textbox',... [0.5 0.5 0.2 0.2],... 'String',{'test'},... 'FontSize',15);

The textbox is drawn, but the textsize is independent of the FontSize value. This is true for other objects such as Labels.

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks, hannes

[Daniel Shub]

This is a duplicate of http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1238-font-size-changes-in-figures

Answer 1

[Hannes]

Is seems that the Matlab fonts are not recognised in Ubuntu. A partial solution is to install the packages: xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi from ubuntu software center

see here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1762805

However, while the size can be changed then, the rendering of the fonts is very bad (you see the pixels).

Any ideas?

[Daniel Shub]

In my answer to http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1238-font-size-changes-in-figures, for Arch Linux I also suggest installing xorg-fonts-type1. Does Ubuntu have an equivalent package (and if so does it help)?