1. What's this? | |
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The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document | |
layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New. | |
2. Requirements | |
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* fontforge is installed. | |
(http://fontforge.sourceforge.net) | |
3. Install | |
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3.1 Decompress tarball | |
You can extract the files by following command: | |
$ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz | |
3.2 Build from the source | |
Change into directory liberation-fonts-[VERSION]/ and build from sources by | |
following commands: | |
$ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION] | |
$ make | |
The built font files will be available in 'build' directory. | |
3.3 Install to system | |
For Fedora, you could manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to | |
~/.fonts for user wide usage, or to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation | |
for system-wide availability. Then, run "fc-cache" to let that cached. | |
For other distributions, please check out corresponding documentation. | |
4. Usage | |
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Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using. | |
5. License | |
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This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, | |
Version 1.1. | |
Please read file "LICENSE" for details. | |
6. For Maintainers | |
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Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to | |
update the version suffix in the Makefile: | |
VER = [VERSION] | |
Make sure that the defined version corresponds to the font software metadata | |
which you can check with ftinfo/otfinfo or fontforge itself. It is highly | |
recommended that file 'ChangeLog' is updated to reflect changes. | |
Create a tarball with the following command: | |
$ make dist | |
The new versioned tarball will be available in the dist/ folder as | |
'liberation-fonts-[NEW_VERSION].tar.gz'. | |
7. Credits | |
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Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors. |