The Birdfont Source Code
Readme in markdown format
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Contributing
Send patches or pull requests to johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com.
Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/johanmattssonm/birdfont.git
Readme in markdown format
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+ # Birdfont - Font Editor
+
+ Birdfont is a font editor which can create vector graphics and
+ export SVG, EOT and TTF fonts.
+
+ Author: Johan Mattsson and others see AUTHORS for full attribution.
+ License: GNU GPL v3
+ Webpage: http://birdfont.org
+ Bugtracker: http://birdfont.org/bugtracker/my_view_page.php
+
+ ## Building from Source
+
+ Install vala and all required libraries, they are most likely in
+ packages with a -dev or -devel affix:
+
+ valac
+ libgee-dev
+ libglib2.0-dev
+ libgtk-3-dev
+ python-gtk2-dev
+ libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev
+ libnotify-dev
+ unicode-data (unicode character database)
+
+ BirdFont have two build systems, one python script that builds all
+ binaries at once and one dependency based build system that uses
+ doit.
+
+ Configure, build and install with python:
+ ./configure
+ ./scripts/linux_build.py
+ sudo ./install.py
+
+ Configure, build and install with doit:
+ ./configure
+ doit
+ sudo ./install.py
+
+ The default prefix is /usr/local on Fedora should BirdFont be compiled with
+ /usr as prefix.
+
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr
+ ./scripts/linux_build.py --prefix=/usr
+ sudo ./install.py
+
+ ## Packages
+
+ Windows and Mac binaries can be downloaded from
+ http://birdfont.org Many Linux distributions have packages of
+ Birdfont in their repositories. There is a BSD package in OpenBSD.
+