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1. What's this? |
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The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document |
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layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New. |
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2. Requirements |
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* fontforge is installed. |
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(http://fontforge.sourceforge.net) |
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3. Install |
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3.1 Decompress tarball |
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You can extract the files by following command: |
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$ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz |
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3.2 Build from the source |
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Change into directory liberation-fonts-[VERSION]/ and build from sources by |
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following commands: |
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$ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION] |
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$ make |
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The built font files will be available in 'build' directory. |
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3.3 Install to system |
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For Fedora, you could manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to |
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~/.fonts for user wide usage, or to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation |
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for system-wide availability. Then, run "fc-cache" to let that cached. |
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For other distributions, please check out corresponding documentation. |
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4. Usage |
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Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using. |
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5. License |
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This font set had been released under GNU Public License version 2 |
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("GPLv2") with exceptions. |
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Please read file "COPYING" for GPLv2 license. |
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Please read file "License.txt" for details of exceptions. |
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6. For Maintainers |
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Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to |
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update the version suffix in the Makefile: |
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VER = [VERSION] |
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Make sure that the defined version corresponds to the font software metadata |
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which you can check with ftinfo/otfinfo or fontforge itself. It is highly |
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recommended that file 'ChangeLog' is updated to reflect changes. |
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Create a tarball with the following command: |
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$ make dist |
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The new versioned tarball will be available in the dist/ folder as |
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'liberation-fonts-[NEW_VERSION].tar.gz'. |
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7. Credits |
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Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.
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