need conventional fonts in open office

[VeryNewLinuxFan]

Can anybody Please give a FOOLPROOF way of installing (activating?) fonts in OpenOffice (and all the other programs)? I pretty much installed anything that said 'font' after a 'yum find font*' (and was not obviously a different alphabet).
It did not change anything in Openoffice.
I am in particular looking for the 'old fashioned' fonts used most often in windows word, such as 'arial', 'helevetica', 'times', etc (or something indistinguishable).

I am running Fedora 7, and here is what I know about my font path:

'/usr/sbin/chkfontpath'
gives:
/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1

/usr/share/fonts/apl/pcf
/usr/share/fonts/apl/TrueType'

Thank you very much!

[happybunny]

if you have a licensed copy of Windows, you can copy those Windows fonts to ~/.Fonts/ and they should be available to your app's

[paj12]

I am in particular looking for the 'old fashioned' fonts used most often in windows word, such as 'arial', 'helevetica', 'times', etc (or something indistinguishable).
Chances are, those "old fashioned" fonts are already installed for you.

Arial/Helvetica = Nimbus Sans
Courier = Nimbus Mono
Times/Times New Roman = Nimbus Roman No. 9

These fonts don't have fancy hinting for use on screen like the Microsoft fonts, but on the printed page they are identical.

[JohnT]

Are you running Gnome or KDE?

[VeryNewLinuxFan]

To everybody: Thanks for all the replies!

To happybunny:

I have legal office 2007, windows xp and vista copies, where do I look for the font files? Thanks.

To paj12:

Yes, I got those fonts, have to get them to a printer, but they look OK so far, thanks!

To JohT:

Sorry, forgot to mention that: I am running Gnome.

[bwkaz]

I have legal office 2007, windows xp and vista copies, where do I look for the font files? Thanks. From what you said about the Nimbus fonts, you don't need them. However, if you want the sub-pixel hinting (so it looks better on-screen), you can probably find the font files in the \windows\fonts directory off Windows's root directory.

I don't think the required .ttf files are available in raw form on the CDs anywhere, though.

:)

[VeryNewLinuxFan]

Thanks, again. I decided I like the Nimbus fonts just fine and will not bother with he microsoft fonts after all.