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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 libgtk2.0-dev
23 libwebkitgtk-dev
24 unicode-data (unicode character database)
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26 BirdFont have two build systems, one python script that builds all binaries at
27 once and one dependency based build system that uses doit.
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29 Configure, build and install with python:
30 ./configure
31 ./scripts/linux_build.py
32 sudo ./install.py
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34 Configure, build and install with doit:
35 ./configure
36 doit
37 sudo ./install.py
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39 The default prefix is /usr/local on Fedora should BirdFont be compiled with
40 /usr as prefix.
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42 ./configure --prefix=/usr
43 ./scripts/linux_build.py --prefix=/usr
44 sudo ./install.py
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47 Packages
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50 Windows and Mac binaries can be downloaded from http://birdfont.org
51 Many Linux distributions have packages of Birdfont in their repositories.
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