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Liberation Fonts
The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New.
Requirements
Install
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Get source
$ git clone https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts.git
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Or downloading the tar.gz file from releases.
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Extract the tar file:
$ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz
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Build from the source
$ cd liberation-fonts or $ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION] $ make
The binary font files will be available in 'liberation-fonts-ttf-[VERSION]' directory.
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Install to system
Fedora Users :
- One can manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to
~/.fonts
for user wide usage - and/or to
/usr/share/fonts/liberation
for system-wide availability. - Then, run
fc-cache
to let that cached.
Other distributions : please check out corresponding documentation.
- One can manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to
Usage
Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using.
License
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
Please read file "LICENSE" for details.
For Maintainers
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Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to update the version suffix in the Makefile:
VER = [NEW_VERSION]
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After updating Makefile VER attribute, update all font metadata by executing:
$ make versionupdate
can verfy changes using ftinfo/otfinfo or fontforge itself.
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It is highly recommended that file 'ChangeLog' is updated to reflect changes.
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Create a tarball with the following command:
$ make dist
The new versioned tarball will be available in the dist/ folder as
liberation-fonts-[NEW_VERSION].tar.gz.
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Create github tag for that [NEW_VERSION] and upload dist tarball
Credits
Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.