186d9c6cdSmaya  Liberation Fonts
286d9c6cdSmaya  =================
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486d9c6cdSmaya  The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document 
586d9c6cdSmaya  layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New.
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886d9c6cdSmaya  Requirements
986d9c6cdSmaya  =================
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1186d9c6cdSmaya  * [fontforge](http://fontforge.sourceforge.net)
1286d9c6cdSmaya  * [python fonttools](https://pypi.org/project/fonttools/)
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1586d9c6cdSmaya Install
1686d9c6cdSmaya  ============
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1886d9c6cdSmaya  1. Get sources
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2086d9c6cdSmaya   The latest sources are available via github by checking out the repo:
2186d9c6cdSmaya   
2286d9c6cdSmaya   	$ git clone https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts
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2486d9c6cdSmaya   Or downloading the tar.gz file via [github](https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/tags).
2586d9c6cdSmaya    eg. 2.00.5 can be retrieved via:
2686d9c6cdSmaya    
2786d9c6cdSmaya	$ wget https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/files/2926169/liberation-fonts-2.00.5.tar.gz
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2986d9c6cdSmaya   You can extract the files using the following command where VERSION=2.00.4:
3086d9c6cdSmaya  	
3186d9c6cdSmaya	$ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz
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3386d9c6cdSmaya  2. Build from the source
3486d9c6cdSmaya  
3586d9c6cdSmaya	$ cd liberation-fonts    or   $ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION]
3686d9c6cdSmaya	$ make
3786d9c6cdSmaya		
3886d9c6cdSmaya   The binary font files will be available in 'liberation-fonts-ttf-[VERSION]' directory.
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4086d9c6cdSmaya  3. Install to system
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4286d9c6cdSmaya   Fedora Users : 
4386d9c6cdSmaya   One can manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to `~/.fonts` for user wide usage, 
4486d9c6cdSmaya   and/or to `/usr/share/fonts/liberation` for system-wide availability. 
4586d9c6cdSmaya   Then, run `fc-cache` to let that cached.
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4786d9c6cdSmaya   Other distributions : 
4886d9c6cdSmaya   please check out corresponding documentation.
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5186d9c6cdSmaya  Usage
5286d9c6cdSmaya  ==========
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5486d9c6cdSmaya  Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using.
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5786d9c6cdSmaya   License
5886d9c6cdSmaya  ============
5986d9c6cdSmaya
6086d9c6cdSmaya  This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
6186d9c6cdSmaya  Version 1.1.
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6386d9c6cdSmaya  Please read file "LICENSE" for details.
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6686d9c6cdSmaya   For Maintainers
6786d9c6cdSmaya  ====================
6886d9c6cdSmaya
6986d9c6cdSmaya  Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to
7086d9c6cdSmaya  update the version suffix in the Makefile:
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7286d9c6cdSmaya    VER = [VERSION]
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7486d9c6cdSmaya  Make sure that the defined version corresponds to the font software metadata
7586d9c6cdSmaya  which you can check with ftinfo/otfinfo or fontforge itself. It is highly 
7686d9c6cdSmaya  recommended that file 'ChangeLog' is updated to reflect changes.
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7886d9c6cdSmaya  Create a tarball with the following command:
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8086d9c6cdSmaya    $ make dist
8186d9c6cdSmaya
8286d9c6cdSmaya  The new versioned tarball will be available in the dist/ folder as
8386d9c6cdSmaya  `liberation-fonts-[NEW_VERSION].tar.gz.`
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8586d9c6cdSmaya  Credits
8686d9c6cdSmaya ============
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8886d9c6cdSmaya  Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.
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