I fixed my problem with arial font.
Somehow there were 5 arial fonts in my user's font folder that showed up as documents instead of FFIL's. As soon as I trashed these I was able to print using the original Arial font.
This also fixed a problem I had printing to a PDF from FileMaker (I think...
I have a similar problem.
MS Office X (latest) will not print arial font when logged in as user.
It will print this font no problem when I am logged in as root.
I could sure use a suggestion for a fix.
thanks
Murray