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Why does AxesLabel lose first characters in 3D plots? (Mma 8.0.0.0, RHEL6)

Christopher Kribs, University of Texas at Arlington
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Hi, this is my first post so let me know (gently emoticon if I'm not doing this quite right.
I'm using Mathematica 8.0.0.0 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 PC, experienced with both Mathematica and Linux but not the combination.
When I invoke Plot3D or ListPlot3D and use AxesLabel, the first character of each label is cut off. So if I run
ListPlot[{{0, 0}, {0, 1}, {1, 0}, {1, 1}}, AxesLabel -> {x1, "x2"}]

everything's fine (labels are x1 and x2), but if I run
ListPlot[{{0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 1}, {1, 0, 1}, {1, 1, 0}}, AxesLabel -> {x1, "x2", 33}]

the labels are 1, 2, and 3.  If I run
Plot3D[Sin[x*y], {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}, AxesLabel -> Automatic]

I get no axes labels at all.
I tried searching for this issue but can't find anything.  Has anyone seen this before?  The workaround is obvious (though I discovered that prepending a space character does no good), but it would be nice to actually fix.
P.S. Forgot to mention--the numbers which label the ticks also have their first characters cut off! So if the tick labels would normally be 0.0, 0.5, and 1.0, I only see .0, .5, and .0 again.
POSTED BY: Christopher Kribs
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I tried both suggestions, and I'm afraid neither had any observable effect.  I guess my next step is to contact Wolfram as you suggest.
POSTED BY: Christopher Kribs
Strange.  I created some (close) data and there is no first-character clipping.

My suspicion is that a start-up file was damaged somehow and Mathematica
starts in a non-standard state.

- The first test is to hold down the SHIFT key as Mathematica starts (until a Mathematica window opens). 
  Copy the inputs from this notebook into a new notebook and evaluate there.

- If that does not correct it, try including the -clean command-line option when starting Mathematica
      mathematica  -clean &
That also resets global preferences and the list of recently opened notebooks.

I did not find a problem report like this.  It is possible that this was only in 8.0.0 and was
fixed in 8.0.1.  You could ask Customer Service (info@wolfram.com, 217-398-5151)
if an upgrade to 8.0.1 (or later 8.0) would be available. 
POSTED BY: Bruce Miller
Thanks for your reply, and yes, somehow the "3D" got left off the second command line above--it was a ListPlot3D.  The missing characters do not appear if I rotate or expand the plot.  I attach a screen shot:
Any ideas?
POSTED BY: Christopher Kribs
Your post was fine.

With the second plot (ListPlot3D), do the missing characters appear if the plot
is rotated or expanded?

I did not see a problem with 9.0.1 on Ubuntu or 8.0.4 or 7.0.1 on MacOS 10.8.

You can add a screen shot to a post by saving the screen shot to a file on your computer
and uploading it with the image ikon, , then in the window that opens click Upload.
POSTED BY: Bruce Miller
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