So, since installing Matlab 2011b on my Ubuntu 11.04, the fonts in my figures have been all terrible. More precisely, I haven’t been able to change their sizes (or styles).
Happily, nice folks at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1762805 have informed the rest of us that we need to install some missing fonts, more precisely by running
sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi
and relogging ubuntu.
And then things just work =)
Thank you internet