romanhargrave/birdfont

A font editor for creating fonts in TTF, EOT, SVG and BIRDFONT format.

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: https://birdfont.org
Bugtracker: https://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
python3-doit
libxmlbird-dev
libgee-0.8-dev
libglib2.0-dev 
libgtk-3-dev 
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
libnotify-dev
libsqlite3-dev

XML Bird is available from birdfont.org.

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
./build.py
sudo ./install.py

Configure, build and install with doit:

./configure
doit3
sudo ./install.py

The default prefix is /usr/local on Fedora should BirdFont be compiled with /usr as prefix.

./configure --prefix=/usr
./build.py
 sudo ./install.py

All patches must be compiled with support for valas null pointer checks. Configure the project with ./configure --nonnull

Packages

Windows and Mac binaries can be downloaded from https://birdfont.org Many Linux distributions have packages of Birdfont in their repositories. There are BSD packages in OpenBSD and FreeBSD.