4 The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document
5 layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New.
11 * fontforge is installed.
12 (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net)
18 3.1 Decompress tarball
20 You can extract the files by following command:
22 $ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz
24 3.2 Build from the source
26 Change into directory liberation-fonts-[VERSION]/ and build from sources by
29 $ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION]
32 The built font files will be available in 'build' directory.
36 For Fedora, you could manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to
37 ~/.fonts for user wide usage, or to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation
38 for system-wide availability. Then, run "fc-cache" to let that cached.
40 For other distributions, please check out corresponding documentation.
46 Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using.
52 This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
55 Please read file "LICENSE" for details.
61 Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to
62 update the version suffix in the Makefile:
66 Make sure that the defined version corresponds to the font software metadata
67 which you can check with ftinfo/otfinfo or fontforge itself. It is highly
68 recommended that file 'ChangeLog' is updated to reflect changes.
70 Create a tarball with the following command:
74 The new versioned tarball will be available in the dist/ folder as
75 'liberation-fonts-[NEW_VERSION].tar.gz'.
80 Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.