At work today Jack Lyon, one of our editors, was asking questions about LaTeX and what I'd had to do to use something other than Computer Modern to typeset the book I've been working on.
Somewhere in my googling & reading various tutorials and books I learned that I could use Palatino simply by adding \usepackage{pxfonts} to my LaTeX document's preamble. Since Palatino is a good book typeface I decided to use it and avoid purchasing a font for now.
Since I'm still in the early stage of learning (La)TeX I didn't know what to tell Jack to do in order to be able to use any arbitrary (postscript) font. Using Google I found these instructions that look to be good guides:
—Michael A. Cleverly
Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 20:45