Known Problems
- Under SuSE-10.0 and 10.1 the kerning information is sometimes not available. This is a SuSE-Bug which also affects other fonts, too! In OpenSuSE-10.2 this problem is fixed.
- We used to provide also *.dfont-files that that people could use on their Macintosh-System if it didn’t like our TTFs (which is not our fault, because Apple’s TTF-conventions differ from MS/Adobe’s ones), but lately OS-X seems to have evolved positively.
- Since summer 2007 there seemed to have been a more or less linux wide change of the font management. Since then the Underlined of Libertine is shown instead of the Regular and the Regular isn’t available anymore. There are two possibilities to avoid this fault. You can either download version 2.7 (or newer) or delete the Underlined from your system. The problem doens’t exist on Windows.
- Programs that base on the Pango library show ligatures automaticly and exaggerate kerning.
License
Our fonts are free in the sense of the GPL and OFL. In a nutshell: Changing the font is allowed as long as the derivative work is published under the same license again. Pedantics keep claiming that the embedded use of GPL-fonts in i.e. PDFs requires the free publication of the PDF as well. This, of course, is absolute nonsense, because - to our opinion - the font is not significantly changed by the embedding. To abolish the conflict some members of the FSF have written an addition to the license: the so called “Font Exception”. Our fonts’ GPL contains this font exception (since version 2.7). Since version 2.1.9 LinuxLibertine is also licensed under the OFL, which will clarify usability-conflicts. Further information about the GPL ( License text, Wikipedia ) and about the OFL ( License text, Wikipedia).
Files
Download packages
| Universal Zip-Archives |
In Unix-typical tgz-archives¹:
- „Font“ in file name
contains the fonts in OTF- and TTF-format - „SRC“ in the file name
contains the Fontforge source files
¹ The packages are TAR-GZ-archives. Windows-/Mac-users will need a good zipper sofware such as 7-Zip.
Installation:
Windows: Copy fonts into folder C:\windows\fonts.
Linux: Use system programs such as KDE-Kontrol to install the fonts. These also update Linux specific system files.
We provide own packages for some special Linux distributions, which you can download from the above linked position.
Installation (i.e. RPM): sudo rpm -i /PFAD/linlibertine-fonts-XY.rpm Update: sudo rpm -U /PFAD/linlibertine-fonts-XY.rpm