Can Not Find Inkscape On Mac After Download

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8/10 (15 votes) - Download Inkscape Mac Free. Inkscape is a drawing software with vector graphics that can be considered as the free successor to the popular FreeHand and that you can download for Mac. There are mixed reports of some Mac users updating to macOS High Sierra and then experiencing a range of problems, from problems installing or downloading the installer, to rapid battery life draining, inability for some apps to open, apps crashing, strange performance problems or overall performance degradation, problems with mounting and reading disks, problems with networking connectivity. In the following windows to install Inkscape click Get and then enter your Microsoft account username and then password in the window that pops up. After signing into your Microsoft Account click Install and the installation will begin. Once the download and installation is complete click Launch and you are ready to begin working with Inkscape.

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NOTE: As of Inkscape 1.0, these special instructions for Mac OS X are no longer required.

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Installing Inkscape and using XQuartz

  • Inkscape does not run directly on the Mac OS X operating system. It uses a go-between called XQuartz. Nothing to be concerned about, but there are a few things you should be aware of.
  • To install Inkscape on Mac OS X, follow the instructions given here: Inkscape Extensions for Bobbin Lace.NOTE: You will need to install XQuartz first and restart your computer as per the instructions in the link.
  • When you launch Inkscape on Mac OS X, you will see two applications start in your Application bar as shown below:
    The left one in the red box is for Inkscape and the right one is for XQuartz. Inkscape runs “inside” the XQuartz application.
  • The top menus for Inkscape are a little different from what you are used to for applications on Mac OS X. Instead of being at the very top of the screen, they are located at the top of the main Inkscape window. The top of the screen will show the XQuartz menus and below that, in another window, you will see the Inkscape menus.
  • Where did it go?!?! If you minimize Inkscape, usually you can make it come back by clicking on the Inkscape icon in the application bar. If this does not work, click on the XQuartz icon in the application bar and from the top menu of XQuartz select “Window -> YOUR DOCUMENT NAME – Inkscape.
  • As of Inkscape 0.92, the Inkscape keyboard shortcuts use Ctrl (^) instead of Cmd (⌘) as a modifier key for commands such as Copy (CtrlC) and Paste (CtrlV). Hopefully, this will be fixed in future releases.

Installing or Upgrading Extensions

  1. Download the file “extensions.zip” from Inkscape Extensions for Bobbin Lace.
  2. Launch Inkscape and go to the menu Edit -> Preferences. A window will pop up and you will probably have to drag the bottom right corner to resize it in order to see everything. On the left side, scroll down to “System” and click on it. On the right side, find “User extensions” and copy the text that appears in the white box beside this label (see below).
  3. Launch the Finder application and in the top menu of Finder select “Go” as shown below. From the “Go” menu select “Go to Folder…”
  4. In the window that pops up, paste the path you saved in step 2 and click on the “Go” button. Finder will take you to this folder location.
  5. Drag the files you downloaded in Step 1 into the folder you opened in Step 4.

Finding the path for Lace templates

  1. Download the “templates.zip” file from Inkscape Extension for Bobbin Lace Grounds and copy the files to a folder where you like to keep your lace documents.
  2. In Finder open the folder that contains the lace template files. Select the text (.txt) file for the template you want to use (NOTE: There is also a .png file with the same name. Make sure you select the .txt file). For example, select the “rose.txt” file if you want to create some Rose ground.
  3. While holding down the OPTION key, click on the right mouse button to open the context menu for this file and select “Copy rose.txt as Pathname” as shown below.
  4. In Inkscape, go to the Extensions top level menu and select Extensions -> Bobbin Lace -> Ground from Template. A window will pop up as shown below. In the white box to the right of the “File name for ground template (full path)” label, paste the path name you copied in Step 3.

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Using the Clipboard

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Because Inkscape uses XQuartz, the clipboard is a little different.

  1. You have set-up the clipboard on XQuartz correctly. From the XQuartz menu at the top of your screen, select XQuartz -> Preferences.Make sure there is no checkbox beside the item “Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes”.
  2. As of Inkscape 0.92, the Inkscape keyboard shortcuts use Ctrl (^) instead of Cmd (⌘) as a modifier key for commands such as Copy (CtrlC) and Paste (CtrlV). Hopefully, this will be fixed in future releases.

I had this error for a very long time when trying to use extensions in Inkscape 0.46 for Mac OS X:

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“The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex.py and therefore this extension”

After many hours of trying to find a solution I got it to work. This is what I did:

After that, all extensions (those found under the effects menu) started to work.

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Update:
The problem seems to be fixed on the latest development version.

Can Not Find Inkscape On Mac After download

Update 2:
Fixed typo. Thanks to Bill Gathen for your comment.

Update 3:
Finally a version of Inkscape that works as expected out of the box. Tested on Mountain Lion. Link posted at the Inkscape development email list. Bonus: partial retina display support and no X11 required!

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Update 4:
An up-to-date solution by Callum Vincent:
http://caih.org/open-source-software/fixing-inkscape-in-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-10018