1 ![Birdfont logo][birdfont]
2
3 # Birdfont - Font Editor
4
5 Birdfont is a font editor which can create vector graphics and
6 export SVG, EOT and TTF fonts.
7
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
12
13 ## Building from Source
14
15 Install vala and all required libraries, they are most likely in
16 packages with a -dev or -devel affix:
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18 valac
19 font-roboto
20 libgee-dev
21 libglib2.0-dev
22 libgtk-3-dev
23 python-gtk2-dev
24 libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev
25 libnotify-dev
26 libsqlite3-dev
27 unicode-data (unicode character database)
28
29 BirdFont have two build systems, one python script that builds all
30 binaries at once and one dependency based build system that uses
31 doit.
32
33 Configure, build and install with python:
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35 ./configure
36 ./scripts/linux_build.py
37 sudo ./install.py
38
39 Configure, build and install with doit:
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41 ./configure
42 doit
43 sudo ./install.py
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45 The default prefix is /usr/local on Fedora should BirdFont be compiled with
46 /usr as prefix.
47
48 ./configure --prefix=/usr
49 ./scripts/linux_build.py --prefix=/usr
50 sudo ./install.py
51
52 ## Packages
53
54 Windows and Mac binaries can be downloaded from
55 http://birdfont.org Many Linux distributions have packages of
56 Birdfont in their repositories. There is a BSD package in OpenBSD.
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58 [birdfont]: http://birdfont.org/images/birdfont_logo2.png "Birdfont logo"
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