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diff --git a/share/gcstar/fonts/README b/share/gcstar/fonts/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..13d1bd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/gcstar/fonts/README @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ + 1. What's this? +================= + + The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims display compatibility to + document files that used Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New as fonts. + + + 2. Requirements +================= + + * fontforge to be 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 + + You can 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. + + + 4. Usage +========== + + The fonts should be installed and detected by the system after installation. + Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using. + + + 5. License +============ + + For redistribution information, please read the GPL license file 'COPYING'. + + For EULA information, please read file 'License.txt'. + + + 6. Maintainers +================ + + (FIXME) + Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to + update the version number 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 versionned tarball will be available in the dist/ folder as +'liberation-fonts-[NEW_VERSION].tar.gz'. + (FIXME) + + 7. Credits +============ + +Special thanks to all involved to the proejct of Liberation Fonts! + + * Caius 'kaio' Chance <k AT kaio.me> + - Current project maintainer. + + * Mark Webbink <mwebbink AT redhat.com> + - Release coordinator, Red Hat Inc. + + * Steve Matteson + - Designer, Ascender Corp. + + * And, all other anonymous participants. |