Why does the font of the y-axis label created using the YLABEL function render incorrectly on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3?

When I use the YLABEL function to create a label for my y-axis, the resulting text looks italicized, as if each letter of the ylabel is slightly rotated past ninety degrees from the x-axis. The font renders correctly on screen only using the Painters renderer. The YLABEL font renders incorrectly when I print to any file format other than .eps or .epsc using the PRINT command, regardless of the renderer specified for printing.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 3 (R14SP3). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

There is a bug in MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1) in the way that YLABEL text is rendered when printing to a JPEG or PNG file on some Linux machines.

As a workaround, capture the figure using GETFRAME command, and then write it to JPEG format using the IMWRITE command, for example,

plot (1:10)

ylabel ('test')

F = getframe(gcf)

imwrite (F.cdata,'filename.jpeg','jpeg')