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
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14 (https://travis-ci.org/johanmattssonm/birdfont)
15
16 ## Building from Source
17
18 Install vala and all required libraries, they are most likely in
19 packages with a -dev or -devel affix:
20
21 valac
22 python3-doit
23 libxmlbird-dev
24 libgee-0.8-dev
25 libglib2.0-dev
26 libgtk-3-dev
27 libwebkit2gtk-3.0-dev
28 libnotify-dev
29 libsqlite3-dev
30
31 XML Bird is available from [birdfont.org][xmlbird].
32
33 BirdFont have two build systems, one python script that builds all
34 binaries at once and one dependency based build system that uses
35 doit.
36
37 Configure, build and install with python:
38
39 ./configure
40 ./build.py
41 sudo ./install.py
42
43 Configure, build and install with doit:
44
45 ./configure
46 doit3
47 sudo ./install.py
48
49 The default prefix is /usr/local on Fedora should BirdFont be compiled with
50 /usr as prefix.
51
52 ./configure --prefix=/usr
53 ./build.py
54 sudo ./install.py
55
56 All patches must be compiled with support for valas null pointer checks.
57 Configure the project with ./configure --nonnull
58
59 ## Packages
60
61 Windows and Mac binaries can be downloaded from
62 http://birdfont.org Many Linux distributions have packages of
63 Birdfont in their repositories. There is a BSD package in OpenBSD.
64
65 [birdfont]: http://birdfont.org/images/birdfont_logo2.png "Birdfont logo"
66 [xmlbird]: http://birdfont.org/xmlbird.php "XML Bird – XML Parser for programs written in VALA"
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