The key insight to getting true-type fonts working was finding this page:
http://www.go2linux.org/msttcorefonts-true-type-fonts-on-linux.
I had to make some minor tweaks to get this to work. Here’s how my session went:
yum -y install rpm-build cabextract xfs ttmkfdir rpm -ivh http://dl.atrpms.net/all/chkfontpath-1.10.1-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec rpm -ivh /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm