Denis McFadden - 2008-01-21 10:32:15 - In reply to message 1 from Chris Bricker
I had the same trouble but found if I copied the '.ttf' fonts from a windows machine to the '/etc/fonts/' directory and then used that as the path it worked OK.
Had a small problem with the case ... windows not 'case-sensitive' Ubuntu was 'case-sensitive'. Couldn't find 'times.TTF' but found 'times.ttf' no bother. :-)
Don't know what the legalities are doing this but there are plenty of places on the web where you can download free fonts to use.