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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)
* python fonttools
(https://pypi.org/project/fonttools/)
3. Install
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3.1 Get sources
The latest sources are available via github by checking out
the repo:
$ git clone https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts
Or downloading the tar.gz file via [github](https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/tags).
For example 2.004 can be retrieved via:
$ wget https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/files/2579282/liberation-fonts-2.00.4.tar.gz
You can extract the files using the following command where VERSION=2.00.4:
$ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz
3.2 Build from the source
Change into directory `liberation-fonts/` or `liberation-fonts-[VERSION]/` and build with
`make`:
$ make
The built font files will be available in 'liberation-fonts-ttf-[VERSION]' 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.