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 libgee-dev
20 libglib2.0-dev
21 libgtk-3-dev
22 python-gtk2-dev
23 libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev
24 libnotify-dev
25 unicode-data (unicode character database)
26
27 BirdFont have two build systems, one python script that builds all
28 binaries at once and one dependency based build system that uses
29 doit.
30
31 Configure, build and install with python:
32
33 ./configure
34 ./scripts/linux_build.py
35 sudo ./install.py
36
37 Configure, build and install with doit:
38
39 ./configure
40 doit
41 sudo ./install.py
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43 The default prefix is /usr/local on Fedora should BirdFont be compiled with
44 /usr as prefix.
45
46 ./configure --prefix=/usr
47 ./scripts/linux_build.py --prefix=/usr
48 sudo ./install.py
49
50 ## Packages
51
52 Windows and Mac binaries can be downloaded from
53 http://birdfont.org Many Linux distributions have packages of
54 Birdfont in their repositories. There is a BSD package in OpenBSD.
55
56 [birdfont]: http://birdfont.org/images/birdfont_logo2.png "Birdfont logo"
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