https://github.com/johanmattssonm/birdfont

A font editor for creating fonts in TTF, EOT, SVG and BIRDFONT format.
https://github.com/johanmattssonm/birdfont

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

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/johanmattssonm/birdfont
• Owner: johanmattssonm
• Created: 2014-10-17T18:55:58.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-15T18:51:51.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-24T04:55:25.877Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: font-editor, fonts, otf, svg, ttf
• Language: Vala
• Homepage: https://birdfont.org
• Size: 26.4 MB
• Stars: 429
• Watchers: 19
• Forks: 32
• Open Issues: 54
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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README

        
![Birdfont logo][birdfont]

# 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

## 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-4.1-dev

    libnotify-dev

    libsqlite3-dev

XML Bird is available from [birdfont.org][xmlbird].

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

The default prefix is /usr/local. On some system is /usr the right 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.

## Logo

The logo was created by Marko Jovanovac. You can find it here:

resources/birdfont-logo.svg

[birdfont]: https://birdfont.org/images/birdfont_logo2.png "Birdfont logo"

[xmlbird]: https://birdfont.org/xmlbird.php "XML Bird – XML Parser for programs written in VALA"

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