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1. What's this?
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The Liberation Fonts are intended to be open font replacements for the three
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most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems: Times New Roman, Arial, and
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Courier New.
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2. Requirements
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* fontforge.
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- http://fontforge.sourceforge.net
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3. Install
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3.1 Decompress tarball
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You can extract the files by following command:
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$ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz
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3.2 Build from the source
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Change into directory liberation-fonts-[VERSION]/ and build from sources by
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following commands:
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$ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION]
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$ make
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The built font files will be available in 'build' directory.
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3.3 Install to system
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You can manually install the fonts by copying them to ~/.fonts for a
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particular user, or to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation for system-wide
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availability
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4. Usage
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The fonts should be installed and detected by the system after installation.
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5. License
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Read the GPL v2 file 'COPYING' and the Liberation Fonts EULA file 'License.txt'
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for more information.
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6. Credits
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Special thanks to all liberation-fonts developers and users!
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* Caius Chance <cchance at redhat.com>
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- Current project maintainer.
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* Mark Webbink <mwebbink at redhat.com>
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- Coordinator.
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* Steve Matteson
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- Ascender Corporation <http://www.ascendercorp.com>
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* And, all other contributors.
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