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Birdfont is a font editor which can create vector graphics andexport SVG, EOT and TTF fonts.

Author: Johan Mattsson and others see AUTHORS for full attribution.License: GNU GPL v3Webpage: https://birdfont.org

Install vala and all required libraries, they are most likely inpackages with a -dev or -devel affix:

valacpython3-doitlibxmlbird-devlibgee-0.8-devlibglib2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-devlibnotify-devlibsqlite3-dev

XML Bird is available frombirdfont.org.

BirdFont have two build systems, one python script that builds allbinaries at once and one dependency based build system that usesdoit.

Configure, build and install with python:

./configure./build.pysudo ./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

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

The logo was created by Marko Jovanovac. You can find it here:resources/birdfont-logo.svg