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 libxmlbird
21 libgee-dev
22 libglib2.0-dev
23 libgtk-3-dev
24 python-gtk2-dev
25 libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev
26 libnotify-dev
27 libsqlite3-dev
28 unicode-data (unicode character database)
29
30 BirdFont have two build systems, one python script that builds all
31 binaries at once and one dependency based build system that uses
32 doit.
33
34 Configure, build and install with python:
35
36 ./configure
37 ./scripts/linux_build.py
38 sudo ./install.py
39
40 Configure, build and install with doit:
41
42 ./configure
43 doit
44 sudo ./install.py
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46 The default prefix is /usr/local on Fedora should BirdFont be compiled with
47 /usr as prefix.
48
49 ./configure --prefix=/usr
50 ./scripts/linux_build.py --prefix=/usr
51 sudo ./install.py
52
53 ## Packages
54
55 Windows and Mac binaries can be downloaded from
56 http://birdfont.org Many Linux distributions have packages of
57 Birdfont in their repositories. There is a BSD package in OpenBSD.
58
59 [birdfont]: http://birdfont.org/images/birdfont_logo2.png "Birdfont logo"
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