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1 ![Birdfont logo][birdfont]
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3 # Birdfont - Font Editor
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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)
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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.
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38 Configure, build and install with python:
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40 ./configure
41 ./build.py
42 sudo ./install.py
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44 Configure, build and install with doit:
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46 ./configure
47 doit3
48 sudo ./install.py
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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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