I have a similar problem. Immediately after upgrade to Hardy my fonts in Mathematica 6.0 went to the 'biscuit crumbly' look. They are pretty much unreadable. In fact, the fonts were affected during the upgrade process also - I loaded Mathematica while I was running the upgrade from kubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, and the fonts were affected.
I'm running on x86_64. Here's my font path information: Font Path: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,/home/jk/.fonts,/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/6.0/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1,/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/6.0/SystemFiles/Fonts/BDF -- [Hardy] Mathematica fonts look bad https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214683 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs