![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: 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.

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

