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1 LOFP - Libertine Open Fonts Project
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3 1. OPEN FONTS PROJECT'S AIMS
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4 We work on a serif and organic grotesque font-family for practical use in documents.
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5 Our project aims at creating a free alternative to the standard W*ndows Font (T*mes).
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6 But neveretheless Libertine and Biolinum are not a clone of any common font!
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7 They have been developed from scratch and go different ways in typography
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8 than the Times or Arial. Just the useability and the dimensions shall be similar,
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9 Libertine should be even better for typical office use! If you want Times- and
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10 Arial-clones go elsewhere. If you just need reliable and good typography
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11 give our fonts a chance. If you want to know more about the design of
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12 Libertine and Biolinum, have a look at our website.
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14 2. LICENSE AND OPENSOURCE
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15 We publish our fonts under the terms of the GPL (see GPL.txt) and OFL (OFL.txt)
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16 -> see also LICENCE.txt!
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17 The OpenSource-tool Fontforge is used as font editor (see http://fontforge.sf.net).
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19 3. FONT FORMATS: TTF, OTF, SVG, WOFF
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20 The font files are available as TTF (TrueType), OTF (OpenType),
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21 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and WOFF (Web Open Font Format) fonts.
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22 The TTF-/WOFF-Family is called "Linux Libertine" and "Linux Biolinum"
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23 and the OTF/SVG "LinuxLibertine O" and "Linux Biolinum O".
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24
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25 So that both types can be installed and used parallely.
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26 Most often TTF is the better supported format though OTF has advances in printing.
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27 Decide yourself what is better for your purpose. OpenType-features are equally
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28 available in both fonts. Note that OpenOffice doesn’t support OTFs, yet.
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29
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30 4. THE LINUX BIOLINUM FONT FACE
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31 Please note:
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32 While you use Libertine-Fonts without any warranty anyway,
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33 take special care with this young font face.
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34
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35 5. HINTING
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36 The TrueType-hinting is a complex technique and our editor FontForge doesn't support
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37 full possibilities (but it becomes alot better version by version) ...
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38 Since version 2.7 also the normal TTFs are hinted. If you don't like this, send me a mail.
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39 You may also try the OpenTypes (which contain PS-Hintings which are quite
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40 good supported by FontForge).
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41
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42 6. DOWNLOAD AND CONTACT
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43 We publish our fonts at http://www.linuxlibertine.org/.
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44
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45 7. THE UNDERLINED VARIANT
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46 Please note:
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47 The underlined variant is recently not being maintained because its concept
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48 doesn’t seem to be sofware-technically reliable and because of lack of interest.
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49 The advantage of this font was that g, commas, cedillas... were not overprinted
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50 by the line anymore. For technical reasons the space was not underlined but
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51 you could use the _ instead. In this font it had the width of the space and
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52 the line was at hight of the underline. The underlined variant used
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53 an older font outline.
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54
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55 Philipp Poll -- gillian at linuxlibertine.org
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