"One of the few remaining gaps in basic desktop functionality in GNU/Linux is the dynamic loading and unloading of fonts, especially in groups. If you're working in OpenOffice.org (OOo), StarOffice Printer Administrator (spadmin) offers a partial solution to the problem.
"Now that designers tend to work on machines with more than 1GB RAM, dynamic font swapping is less of a problem than it was when a top-end computer had 32MB. Still, the problem remains..."