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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
+ =================
+
+ * [fontforge](http://fontforge.sourceforge.net)
+ * [python fonttools](https://pypi.org/project/fonttools/)
+
+
+ Install
+ ============
+
+ 1. Get sources
+
+ The latest sources are available via github by checking out the repo:
+
+ $ git clone https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts
+
+ Or downloading the tar.gz file via [github](https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/tags).
+ eg. 2.00.5 can be retrieved via:
+
+ $ wget https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/files/2926169/liberation-fonts-2.00.5.tar.gz
+
+ You can extract the files using the following command where VERSION=2.00.4:
+
+ $ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz
+
+ 2. 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.
+
+ 3. 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.
+
+
+ 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
+ ====================
+
+ 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.`
+
+ Credits
+ ============
+
+ Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.