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DESCRIPTION
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
Inkscape's main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.47:
- Timed autosave: no more lost work
- Spiro splines: an exciting new way to work with paths, fully supported in Pen, Pencil, and Node tools
- Auto smooth nodes: a new type of node that keeps the path as smooth as possible as you move it or its neighbors
- New modes in Tweak tool: pushing and jittering whole objects, scaling/rotating objects, deleting and duplicating using the "soft brush"
- Reworked, much more usable snapping system and a Snapping toolbar
- New path effects, including sketch, hatching, envelope deformation; effects can be stacked and assigned to groups
- A huge collection of preset filters in the new Filters menu
- New cairo-based PS and EPS export: improved quality, more features supported, fallback rasterization for filters and transparency
- Spell checker for text objects in a document
- Many new extensions: restacking, calendar, printing marks, cartesian and polar grids, interpolating attributes
- Optimized SVG code options, now with their own Preferences page
- Many other improvements, usability tweaks, memleak stops, and misc bugfixes
REQUIREMENTS
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- Apple's X11 windowing environment
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| Inkscape User Reviews (38 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 26 2009 |
PIZZACAKE Inkscape 0.47 works quite well in X11 2.3.4 on 10.6.2 using a MacBook CD 1.83 GHz. Even wacom pressure sensitive tablet is working.
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 | Sep 9 2009 |
CELYINSC HELP...the Snow Leopard has killed Inkscape. i have loved Inkscape and iwas free. it did everything i needed it to do. Watching You Tube tutorials and self-teaching, and 10 hours later, Inkscape was super. It will not work with Mac Snow Leopard. I have download every new pre-release and nothing seems to correctly. Fonts are messed up, I can't cut and paste and when I save some something and pull it up in "Sure Cuts A Lot, it is an utter mess. If Inkscape can fix this problem, I will be in love again. If you have a PC, then go for it!!!! It is a great program....jut watch a lo of You Tube Tutorials to help you get started,
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| Sep 18 2009 |
JEFF WRAGG It works fine on my two Snow Leopard machines. So the problem must be elsewhere. Maybe reinstall both Inkscape and X11? Note that xquartz 2.40 does not work on snow leopard. Use the apple version 2.3.4 installed by SL. Can you describe your problem more fully?
(Version 0.47pre2.2) | |
| Oct 18 2009 |
YOSHINATSU The newest 0.47pre4.1 works just fine for me on Snow Leopard. It'll probably be much better when Xquartz 2.4.1 is released.
(Version 0.47pre4.1) | |
| Jul 7 2009 |
MARK EVERITT Updating to the latest XQuartz is a good idea for Inkscape. http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki I've had problems copying and pasting in Inkscape. It turns out that this is due to the X11 pasteboard integration. If you copy an object in Inkscape and paste it again, it will turn into a nasty raster image. The way to fix this is to turn off the pasteboard integration in the X11 preferences.
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| Jul 4 2009 |
VIRTUALTAOIST I would also like to see this fantastic app running natively on Mac OS X, from what I have researched, progress is being made, but like alot of things in the Open Source Community it's going to take alot of time due to Mac OS X being still treated like a minority operating system compared to Windows, and most developers preferring to develop for their beloved Linux, yet they fail to realise that a huge amount of creative agency's and freelance digital artists/designers use Mac OS X. I hope work can be speeded up on the OS X native port of GTK+ as I would love to see this and GIMP running natively, if I had a shred of knowledge about programming I would help out, but sadly I don't, I'm just an artist :P, so come on software engineers! theres alot of creative people with no knowledge of programming out here needing you to get this working as soon as possible! and to stop treating our favourite platform like a second class citizen!
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| Jul 7 2009 |
MARK EVERITT Inkscape 0.47pre0 is available as an experimental native build, and I know that GIMP has had experimental native builds for some time so you should try those out. They look a bit weird though. GTK+ is made mainly for sitting on top of X11, so Linux etc. get the most support. Next in line is Windows because it has so many users. No-brainer. Sadly we really are the lowest priority, especially since Macs can use X11 too. It's basically not essential so I completely sympathise with the GTK+ developers.
(Version 0.47pre1) | |
| May 29 2009 |
MACUPDATED X11 launches and nothing happens, I am running 10.5.7 with XQuartz 2.1.6.
(Version 0.46.3) | |
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| Aug 31 2009 |
REVIDCAST read on the Inkscape forums for those kind of problems. You have to understand how X11 works and please be patient the first time Inkscape starts on your Mac.
(Version 0.47pre1.2) | |
| Apr 25 2009 |
LARRY IVERSON This application is advanced enough to be effective yet simple enough for the average human. The only problem is that it doesn't run well with X-11 and I have the latest update. When you scroll the app. lags so badly that some times I get lost in the "white zone". In other words if you scroll as if it was a native Mac application it will go hay wire! Then again GIMP for Mac works wonderful except the HUD's (other than the main project window) don't fit in the screen on a desktop monitor or a laptop. This is something I have come to expect with open source totally free software. I wonder if Adobe is paying the developers to but innocent bugs in the deal?! They obviously have the money for selling a 1GB App. for $400.00 dollars.
(Version 0.46.3) | |
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| May 6 2009 |
JEFF WRAGG I run Inkscape on many machines, and we don't see this problem. Although I run X11 version 2.3.X Inkscape is quite popular with my students, who find it appropriately powerful, and well priced.
(Version 0.46.3) | |
 | Apr 18 2009 |
101KEYS After spending an obscene amount of cash over the years for Photoshop and illustrator for the PC, I wanted to find an efficient and cost-effective drawing application for my new Macbook that would allow me to create quality comics and manga pages. Enter Inkscape. This impressive freeware graphic tool is quick to learn and easy to use with results comparable to the two above mentioned applications. Whether using a mouse or a graphic tablet (which this app will allow you to control the tip pressure), the lines are fluid and clean. The calligraphy tool is outstanding, allowing you to easily product beautiful handwritten text, or with light tweaking, comic book quality characters. With Inkscape you to draw in layers, use perspectives, import images, export, add brushes and use other features you would find in those other "expensive" programs. For the kids, there's a star stamp and spiral button for decorating drawings or photos. Aside from getting use the tricky gradient and text features, Inkscape is a perfect powerful application for those who wish to draw and edit with professional results on a shoestring budget.
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| Apr 6 2009 |
APPSCOUT Well. Not so much poorly as, awkwardly.
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| Apr 4 2009 |
APPSCOUT Loads of features, and pleasant to look at. But, decidedly un-Mac-like. Would this be able to be 'native' to the Mac? Without the palaver of X-11? or MacPort? A NeoOffice to OOo, if you will. Could Celtx be a model? Using HTML, XML, RDF and TXT? It's time or money, right? But, any time that I contributed, would be time well wasted. FWIW, is this a Linux app, the same way IE is a Win app? They just happen to run on the Mac? Poorly.
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| May 25 2008 |
MARK EVERITT I use this for producing research posters, and even our group logo. Very easy to use and intuitive! The best free vector graphic program there is, and it's available on windows and various linux too, so collaboration is nice and easy.
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