bad fonts in opera menu with msttcorefonts

[John Doe]

Hi, I have installed msttcorefonts with manual here:
http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfec...p-fedora-10-p4

(that is
su
cd /tmp/
wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/mst...nts-2.0-1.spec
yum -y install rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir
rpmbuild -bb msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec
rpm -ivh /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm --nodeps

Now I have menu items in opera and also fonts on some pages are very ugly.
1. how can I fix this madness and "uninstall" what I have done? (rpm -e did not work)
2. how can I install msttcorefonts to work properly on fedora 10 (in ubuntu it worked using apt-get install msttcforefonts)

this is the screenshot how it looks now:
http://img68.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uglyna6.png

Btw. the monochromatic font rendering is ok, it is ugly too, but at least not blurry With antialiasing enabled my eyes hurt after a while. I'm talking about the width of menus, it should be about one third of what it is now...

Thank you for any help, I do not want to reinstall fedora

[Hlingler]

> I can't see any picture on the imageshack site. Try some other file-sharing site that actuallt displays the pic(s).
> Why did you rpmbuild as root user ?
> What do you mean: "rpm -e did not work" ?? Try:
rpm -ev msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch [--nodeps]
> Then install a sane mstt-corefonts package from, say: mjmwired.net

V

[pwca]

First it might be interesting to know what the fonts look like on the desktop and other applications. In other words is this a bad fonts and/or bad build of them or is this a case of the engine Apple's using in Opera not displaying them properly. If it's the latter then you're either a) going to have to use a different browser or b) suck it up and live with it.

[John Doe]

Hi, thank you for replies.

- Yum does not work as normal user, so I have thought rpmbuild has to be run as a root too :-) When I compile something, I always fail on rights, so when comes to an instllation, I use su command before. If it's not good, sorry, I have a lot to learn, I'm new to linux. But installing something as "administrator" sounds like it have some sense to me...

rpm -ev msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch --nodeps
Does not work, it says something as execution of scriptlet failed with error code 1 (i don't know the exact translation, it is localised) so I'm unable to uninstall :-(

- The imageshack picture works fine for me, in opera and in firefox too. But I have uploaded it on another location:
http://i37.tinypic.com/viftds.png

- Fonts in other applications are displayed fine, only in opera the menus are wrong. I would reinstall fedora to make it good looking, but it's not a perfect solution, I'd like to learn how to fix things which I broke...

Btw. there's no such a thing as apple's engine in opera, apple engine in opera would be something like volkswagen engine in lexus ;-) I'm not going to use different browser, opera is indeed such a lexus in browsers. When you get used to it, you cannot drive anything else :-)

[Hlingler]

OK. I see the pic now, and understand. Font rendering looks spacey.

It's generally recommended to "rpmbuild' as normal user, then install the resulting RPMs as root user. Security considerations, and so a bad build and/or specfile doesn't bork your OS by over-writing and/or erasing important stuff.

If the RPM remove command fails due to a script error, then:
rpm -ev msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch --noscripts [--nodeps]

use the '--nodeps' switch only if required to force a clean removal without dragging out other packages.

Once you get that msttcorefonts package removed, follow mjmuranda's guide: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...a-f10.html#ttf

By the way, what version of Opera are you using? I have: opera-9.60-2405.gcc4.shared.qt3.i386. I think REV 9.62 is available, so that would be fine.

V