{"id":3967,"date":"2014-09-20T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T14:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2015-01-25T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T13:14:30","slug":"install-birdfont-font-editor-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/09\/install-birdfont-font-editor-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Install The Latest BirdFont Font Editor in Ubuntu 14.04\/14.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdfont-editor-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdfont-editor-icon.png\" alt=\"Install BirdFont Editor in Ubuntu\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdfont-editor-icon.png 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdfont-editor-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>BirdFont is a free font editor that lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT &#038; SVG fonts. It&#8217;s an open-source editor written in Vala.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>BirdFont is developed by Johan Mattsson with a good number of people contributing translations and patches. The editor now is at version 1.3 and has around 42 000 lines of code.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdfont_font_editor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdfont_font_editor-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"BirdFont Editor in Ubuntu\" width=\"610\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdfont_font_editor-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdfont_font_editor-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birdfont_font_editor.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BirdFont has been made into default Ubuntu repositories since 14.10 Utopic. But the packages are old at the moment. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve upload the latest build into PPA with the debian files belong to <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/birdfont\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu official<\/a>. The PPA so far supports Ubuntu 14.10 and derivatives, such as Linux Mint 17.<\/p>\n<p><b>To install the latest BirdFont (1.3 so far) in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, paste the commands below and run one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/birdfont\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install birdfont<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/install-birdfont-editor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/install-birdfont-editor.jpg\" alt=\"Install BirdFont Editor via PPA\" width=\"580\" height=\"271\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/install-birdfont-editor.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/install-birdfont-editor-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that, you can receive future updates through Software Updater. <\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to add the PPA repository, grab the <b>.deb<\/b> package directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/ubuntuhandbook1\/birdfont\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/b\/birdfont\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>THIS PAGE<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get started using the editor, please read the <a href=\"http:\/\/birdfont.org\/doku\/doku.php\/tutorials\" target=\"_blank\">official tutorials<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BirdFont is a free font editor that lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT &#038; SVG fonts. It&#8217;s an open-source editor written in Vala. BirdFont is developed by Johan Mattsson with a good number of people contributing translations and patches. The editor now is at version 1.3 and has around 42 000 lines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1149,1150],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-birdfont","tag-font-editor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}