Bird Font SVG Font creator.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12536

Just saw this at Sourceforge. Not a font guy, but, I know many here are, so have at it.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/birdfont/

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

hmm, maybe thats something for me, i love working with text and used to scribble graffiti stuff on paper when i was younger

thanks for the link, lylejk

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

well write a presentation may be a a pain but at least a few notes are necessary

ZWard117 · **Joined:** Jan 20, 2012 **Posts:** 583

Does it support smooth lines?

Odinbc · **Posted:** Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:50 am **(#5)**

I didn't try Bird Font. It's a fairly large download without a history

Thanks for the link though!
If you have Inkscape try the built-in SVG Font Editor.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14730 **Location:** USA

It looks like it has an Adobe Air interface.

It isn't too hard to use once you realize the directions and hints are at the bottom left of the dialog when you hover over a button.

This is through Wine -

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14730 **Location:** USA

To install on Fedora Linux you need webkitgtk-dev, valac and waf

Search valac in the repository and download and install both compat-vala and vala
Search webkitgtk-dev and install it.
Enter into root and
yum install waf

Now...exit root
download the birdfont tar file and untar to another default folder named birdfont
cd into birdfont and run
./waf configure
./waf build

now you need to be in root and enter
./waf install

Now i got past configure

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[rod@rod birdfont]$ ./waf configure
Setting top to                           : /home/rod/Downloads/birdfont 
Setting out to                           : /home/rod/Downloads/birdfont/build 
Checking for 'gcc' (c compiler)          : ok 
Checking for program pkg-config          : /usr/bin/pkg-config 
Checking for 'gobject-2.0'               : yes 
Checking for 'gthread-2.0'               : yes 
Checking for program valac-0.8           : not found 
Checking for program valac               : /usr/bin/valac 
Checking for valac version >= (0, 8, 0)  : (0, 16, 0) 
Checking for 'glib-2.0' >= 2.16.0        : yes 
Checking for 'gio-2.0' >= 2.16.0         : yes 
Checking for 'gtk+-2.0' >= 2.16.0        : yes 
Checking for 'libxml-2.0'                : yes 
Checking for 'webkit-1.0'                : yes 
'configure' finished successfully (1.044s)

but got this error when i went to run ./waf build

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/usr/bin/ld: src/CutBackgroundTool.c.0.o: undefined reference to symbol 'fmax@@GLIBC_2.1'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'fmax@@GLIBC_2.1' is defined in DSO /lib/libm.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line
/lib/libm.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Waf: Leaving directory `/home/rod/Downloads/birdfont/build'
Build failed

I am not sure which LIBS to link to here.

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./waf configure LIBS=-?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14730 **Location:** USA

Does anyone have an answer to this dilemma?

Just bumping this to the top so maybe i can get an answer.

johanm · **Joined:** Dec 05, 2012 **Posts:** 2

Rod wrote:

Does anyone have an answer to this dilemma?

Just bumping this to the top so maybe i can get an answer.

I did just try fedora 17 and compiled Birdfont on it. The latest version from the git repository compiles and runs just fine. You need to compile valac 0.18 first.

Then:

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./waf configure
./waf build
sudo ./waf install

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4759

Odinbc wrote:

I didn't try Bird Font. It's a fairly large download without a history

Thanks for the link though!
If you have Inkscape try the built-in SVG Font Editor.

Inskcape will only handle cubic Bezier splines (two end points, and two control points (a.k.a. tangent handles)) which are the kind used in general graphics, while fonts make great use of conic/quadratic Bezier splines (two end points, but only one control point). In fact there is nothing in the SVG format to specify a conic spline. Of course a conic spline can be also expressed as a cubic one, but from the point of view of the users, it's different because there is only one point to move.

johanm · **Joined:** Dec 05, 2012 **Posts:** 2

You can use both quadratic and cubic béziercurves according to the w3c svg specification. But as you explain – most programs pick either one. I think cubic curves are easier to use.

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