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Birdfont - Font Editor
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Birdfont is a font editor that creates outline vector graphics and exports
fonts in SVG, EOT and TTF format.

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 
python-doit 
libglib2.0-dev 
libgtk2.0-dev 
libxml2-dev 
libwebkitgtk-dev

Configure, build and install:
./configure
doit
sudo ./install

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Bulding Windows Binaries
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Windows binaries are cross compiled with mingw on a Ubuntu system. Install
all dependencies from Gregs repository as described here:

http://greg.thehellings.com/2012/02/a-better-ubuntu-mingw-experience/

You need wine and nsis windows installer as well.

Compile and build the installer with:
cd win32
./build_win32.py

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Building Mac binaries
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Compile all dependencies using MacPorts and run:
./mac/build_mac.py

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Precompiled Packages
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A Windows binary is avalilable at http://birdfont.org
You need to install the windows version on drive C:.

A Ubuntu package is avalilable at https://launchpad.net
You can apt-get install birdfont form Olivier Bertens repository.

A Debian packages is available at http://packages.debian.org

A Machintosh binary image is available at http://birdfont.org
You might need to install a more recent version of XOrg. Install 
the server and run:
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macports.startx.plist

