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   1. What's this?
=================

The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document
layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New.


2. Requirements
=================

* fontforge is installed.
(http://fontforge.sourceforge.net)


3. Install
============

3.1 Decompress tarball

You can extract the files by following command:

$ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz

3.2 Build from the source

Change into directory liberation-fonts-[VERSION]/ and build from sources by
following commands:

$ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION]
$ make

The built font files will be available in 'build' directory.

3.3 Install to system

For Fedora, you could manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to
~/.fonts for user wide usage, or to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation
for system-wide availability. Then, run "fc-cache" to let that cached.

For other distributions, please check out corresponding documentation.


4. Usage
==========

Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using.


5. License
============

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
Version 1.1.

Please read file "LICENSE" for details.


6. For Maintainers
====================

Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to
update the version suffix in the Makefile:

VER = [VERSION]

Make sure that the defined version corresponds to the font software metadata
which you can check with ftinfo/otfinfo or fontforge itself. It is highly
recommended that file 'ChangeLog' is updated to reflect changes.

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'.

7. Credits
============

Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.