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