http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4346
------- Additional Comments From dank@kegel.com 2006-14-06 08:22 ------- Still happens with wine-0.9.15. I'm on Dapper Drake test 4, and I think freetype was found ok by wine's configure script (see my dapper.sh in http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages for how I configured my system).
The workaround, to be explicit, is to do wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/arial32.exe wine arial32.exe before running Picasa.