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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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==========
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Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using.
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5. License
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============
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This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
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Version 1.1.
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Please read file "LICENSE" for details.
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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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============
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Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.
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