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

The Liberation Fonts are intended to be open font replacements for the three
most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems: Times New Roman, Arial, and
Courier New.


2. Requirements
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  * fontforge.
    - http://fontforge.sourceforge.net


3. Install
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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

  You can manually install the fonts by copying them to ~/.fonts for a
  particular user, or to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation for system-wide
  availability


4. Usage
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The fonts should be installed and detected by the system after installation. 


5. License
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Read the GPL v2 file 'COPYING' and the Liberation Fonts EULA file 'License.txt'
for more information.

6. Credits
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Special thanks to all liberation-fonts developers and users!

 * Caius Chance <cchance at redhat.com>
   - Current project maintainer.

 * Mark Webbink <mwebbink at redhat.com>
   - Coordinator.

 * Steve Matteson
   - Ascender Corporation <http://www.ascendercorp.com>

 * And, all other contributors.