From: Armin H. on
I think it has something to do with the new Java version on Snow leopard. I was able to at least get rid of the inverted label problem by using Java 5 instead of 6. You can do this without downgrading to Mac OS 10.5, but I had to install Java5 so it can run in parallel to 6. Then, all you have to do is go to the Java preferences (Applications->Utilities->Java Preferences) and change the preferred order for java applications (when I place J2SE 5.0, 32bit in the first row, Matlab labels work...)

Look here, for example, on how to fix Java on SL: http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/blog/ken_sipe/2009/09/fixing_java_on_mac_snow_leopard

Hope this helps,
Armin



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> > > Does anybody know the reason?
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> > I'm seeing the same problem. What OS are you running? I'm noticing the problem on OS X 10.6 and with R2007a. However, when I save the figure to a PDF, the problem goes away, and the ylabel appears as it should. Try doing that, and see what happens. GL!
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> Yeah! recently I updated to Snow Leopard. I need to downgrade to OS X 10.5. Matlab has a lot of problem with Snow Leopard.
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> Thanks though!
From: john borg on
sounds like an easy fix but where did you get Java 5 for the mac OSX 10.6?
From: Armin H. on
I just found a Matlab forum post that has a nice outline at the very bottom of the thread:

Installing Java 1.5 on Snow Leopard:
from: http://www.mathworks.nl/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/260767

(This is mainly from the original post here: http://chxor.chxo.com/post/183013153/installing-java-1-5-on-snow-leopard )


(I did it slightly differently, but can't remember the details. There's a stand-alone Java 5 distribution out there somewhere which I used. The steps in the post above seem to work fine, though.)


"john borg" <john.borg(a)mu.edu> wrote in message <hlk66p$rpi$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> sounds like an easy fix but where did you get Java 5 for the mac OSX 10.6?