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Birdfont - Font Editor
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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

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Building from Source
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Install vala and all required libraries, they are most likely in packages 
with a -dev or -devel affix. 

Install the following packages:
valac
libgee-dev
libglib2.0-dev 
libgtk2.0-dev 
libxml2-dev 
libwebkitgtk-dev
unicode-data (unicode character database)

Configure, build and install:
./configure
./scripts/linux_build.py
sudo ./install.py

BirdFont have two build systems, one very simple python script that
builds all binaries at once and one dependency based build system
that uses doit.

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


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Building Mac binaries
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Compile all dependencies using MacPorts and run:

python ./configure --prefix=/opt/birdfont 
python ./scripts/mac_build.py
sudo python ./install.py

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Packages
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Windows binaries are avalilable at http://birdfont.org

A Ubuntu packages are avalilable at https://launchpad.net

A Machintosh binary image is available at http://birdfont.org and
a GTK version for Mac can be installed with MacPorts.
