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2 Birdfont - Font Editor
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5 Birdfont is a font editor which can create vector graphics and export SVG, EOT
6 and TTF fonts.
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8 Author: Johan Mattsson and others see AUTHORS for full attribution.
9 License: GNU GPL v3
10 Webpage: http://birdfont.org
11 Bugtracker: http://birdfont.org/bugtracker/my_view_page.php
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14 Building from Source
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17 Install vala and all required libraries, they are most likely in packages
18 with a -dev or -devel affix:
19 valac
20 libgee-dev
21 libglib2.0-dev
22 libgtk-3-dev
23 python-gtk2-dev
24 libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev
25 libnotify-dev
26 unicode-data (unicode character database)
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28 BirdFont have two build systems, one python script that builds all binaries at
29 once and one dependency based build system that uses doit.
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31 Configure, build and install with python:
32 ./configure
33 ./scripts/linux_build.py
34 sudo ./install.py
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36 Configure, build and install with doit:
37 ./configure
38 doit
39 sudo ./install.py
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41 The default prefix is /usr/local on Fedora should BirdFont be compiled with
42 /usr as prefix.
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44 ./configure --prefix=/usr
45 ./scripts/linux_build.py --prefix=/usr
46 sudo ./install.py
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49 Packages
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52 Windows and Mac binaries can be downloaded from http://birdfont.org
53 Many Linux distributions have packages of Birdfont in their repositories.
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