字体编辑器Birdfont

Birdfont 是一款开源的字体编辑器，允许用户方便地编辑和创建TTF、EOT和SVG字体。采用 Vala 语言开发。

Linux下安装方法：

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/birdfont

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install birdfont

卸载命令：

sudo apt-get remove birdfont

官方下载：http://birdfont.org/

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

birdfont.org 

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.

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.

from https://github.com/johanmattssonm/birdfont