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README.md

      1   Liberation Fonts
      2   =================
      3 
      4   The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document 
      5   layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New.
      6 
      7 
      8   Requirements
      9   =================
     10 
     11   * [fontforge](http://fontforge.sourceforge.net)
     12   * [python fonttools](https://pypi.org/project/fonttools/)
     13 
     14 
     15  Install
     16   ============
     17 
     18   1. Get sources
     19 
     20    The latest sources are available via github by checking out the repo:
     21    
     22    	$ git clone https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts
     23 
     24    Or downloading the tar.gz file via [github](https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/tags).
     25     eg. 2.00.5 can be retrieved via:
     26     
     27 	$ wget https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/files/2926169/liberation-fonts-2.00.5.tar.gz
     28 
     29    You can extract the files using the following command where VERSION=2.00.4:
     30   	
     31 	$ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz
     32 
     33   2. Build from the source
     34   
     35 	$ cd liberation-fonts    or   $ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION]
     36 	$ make
     37 		
     38    The binary font files will be available in 'liberation-fonts-ttf-[VERSION]' directory.
     39 
     40   3. Install to system
     41   
     42    Fedora Users : 
     43    One can manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to `~/.fonts` for user wide usage, 
     44    and/or to `/usr/share/fonts/liberation` for system-wide availability. 
     45    Then, run `fc-cache` to let that cached.
     46 
     47    Other distributions : 
     48    please check out corresponding documentation.
     49 
     50 
     51   Usage
     52   ==========
     53 
     54   Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using.
     55 
     56 
     57    License
     58   ============
     59 
     60   This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
     61   Version 1.1.
     62 
     63   Please read file "LICENSE" for details.
     64 
     65 
     66    For Maintainers
     67   ====================
     68 
     69   Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to
     70   update the version suffix in the Makefile:
     71 
     72     VER = [VERSION]
     73 
     74   Make sure that the defined version corresponds to the font software metadata
     75   which you can check with ftinfo/otfinfo or fontforge itself. It is highly 
     76   recommended that file 'ChangeLog' is updated to reflect changes.
     77 
     78   Create a tarball with the following command:
     79 
     80     $ make dist
     81 
     82   The new versioned tarball will be available in the dist/ folder as
     83   `liberation-fonts-[NEW_VERSION].tar.gz.`
     84 
     85   Credits
     86  ============
     87 
     88   Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.
     89