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
Bugtracker: https://birdfont.org/bugtracker/my_view_page.php

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-4.0-dev 
libnotify-dev
libsqlite3-dev
libxmlbird-dev

XML Bird is available from https://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

Configure, build and install with doit:

./configure
doit3
sudo ./install.py

The default prefix is /usr/local on Fedora should BirdFont be compiled with /usr as 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 from https://birdfont.org Many Linux distributions have packages of Birdfont in their repositories. There is a BSD package in OpenBSD.