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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/fonts/README-linlibertine Sat Mar 03 12:55:57 2012 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ 1.4 +LOFP - Libertine Open Fonts Project 1.5 + 1.6 +1. OPEN FONTS PROJECT'S AIMS 1.7 +We work on a serif and organic grotesque font-family for practical use in documents. 1.8 +Our project aims at creating a free alternative to the standard W*ndows Font (T*mes). 1.9 +But neveretheless Libertine and Biolinum are not a clone of any common font! 1.10 +They have been developed from scratch and go different ways in typography 1.11 +than the Times or Arial. Just the useability and the dimensions shall be similar, 1.12 +Libertine should be even better for typical office use! If you want Times- and 1.13 +Arial-clones go elsewhere. If you just need reliable and good typography 1.14 +give our fonts a chance. If you want to know more about the design of 1.15 +Libertine and Biolinum, have a look at our website. 1.16 + 1.17 +2. LICENSE AND OPENSOURCE 1.18 +We publish our fonts under the terms of the GPL (see GPL.txt) and OFL (OFL.txt) 1.19 +-> see also LICENCE.txt! 1.20 +The OpenSource-tool Fontforge is used as font editor (see http://fontforge.sf.net). 1.21 + 1.22 +3. FONT FORMATS: TTF, OTF, SVG, WOFF 1.23 +The font files are available as TTF (TrueType), OTF (OpenType), 1.24 +SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and WOFF (Web Open Font Format) fonts. 1.25 +The TTF-/WOFF-Family is called "Linux Libertine" and "Linux Biolinum" 1.26 +and the OTF/SVG "LinuxLibertine O" and "Linux Biolinum O". 1.27 + 1.28 +So that both types can be installed and used parallely. 1.29 +Most often TTF is the better supported format though OTF has advances in printing. 1.30 +Decide yourself what is better for your purpose. OpenType-features are equally 1.31 +available in both fonts. Note that OpenOffice doesn’t support OTFs, yet. 1.32 + 1.33 +4. THE LINUX BIOLINUM FONT FACE 1.34 +Please note: 1.35 +While you use Libertine-Fonts without any warranty anyway, 1.36 +take special care with this young font face. 1.37 + 1.38 +5. HINTING 1.39 +The TrueType-hinting is a complex technique and our editor FontForge doesn't support 1.40 +full possibilities (but it becomes alot better version by version) ... 1.41 +Since version 2.7 also the normal TTFs are hinted. If you don't like this, send me a mail. 1.42 +You may also try the OpenTypes (which contain PS-Hintings which are quite 1.43 +good supported by FontForge). 1.44 + 1.45 +6. DOWNLOAD AND CONTACT 1.46 +We publish our fonts at http://www.linuxlibertine.org/. 1.47 + 1.48 +7. THE UNDERLINED VARIANT 1.49 +Please note: 1.50 +The underlined variant is recently not being maintained because its concept 1.51 +doesn’t seem to be sofware-technically reliable and because of lack of interest. 1.52 +The advantage of this font was that g, commas, cedillas... were not overprinted 1.53 +by the line anymore. For technical reasons the space was not underlined but 1.54 +you could use the _ instead. In this font it had the width of the space and 1.55 +the line was at hight of the underline. The underlined variant used 1.56 +an older font outline. 1.57 + 1.58 +Philipp Poll -- gillian at linuxlibertine.org 1.59 +