Installing Inkscape on a Mac

The electric current version of Inkscape can be installed on computers running macOS version ten.11 or newer.

If you are on macOS x.seven - 10.10, you need to install the older Inkscape 0.92.ii (from 2017) using the carve up instructions below . Inkscape is likewise available for Mac users who prefer to work with the Homebrew and MacPorts environments.

Installing Inkscape on macOS x.11 and newer

This is the recommended method for most Mac users to install Inkscape. Information technology installs the current version of Inkscape and requires that your calculator is running macOS version x.11 or newer.

  1. Using a web browser, become to the Inkscape downloads page.

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  2. Click the box labelled macOS (10.xi-10.15) to download the Inkscape disk image ( DMG ) file.

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  3. Once the download has finished, open your Downloads binder in the Finder. You tin can open this binder by selecting from the menu bar in the Finder. Double-click the Inkscape DMG file to open up it.

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  4. Click and drag the Inkscape icon to the Applications icon as instructed in this window. This will install Inkscape on your Mac.

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  5. Open up Inkscape by double-clicking its icon in the Applications folder. You can open up the Applications folder by selecting from the menu bar in the Finder.

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Installing Inkscape on OS X 10.7 - 10.ten

If yous have an older Mac running OS Ten version x.seven - 10.10, y'all can even so install an older version of Inkscape, v 0.92. As part of this process, you will starting time install a helper program called XQuartz then Inkscape 0.92 itself.

Step i: Install XQuartz

  1. Using a web browser, become to the XQuartz website and click the XQuartz DMG icon to download it.

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  2. Once the download has finished, open up your Downloads folder in the Finder. You can open this folder past selecting from the bill of fare bar in the Finder. Double-click the XQuartz.dmg file to open up information technology.

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  3. A new window will appear. Double-click the XQuartz.pkg icon to launch the XQuartz installer. Follow the steps and instructions in installer to finish installing XQuartz.

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  4. Restart, shut downwardly, or log out of your Mac earlier proceeding to the next step.

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Pace 2: Install Inkscape

  1. Using a spider web browser, get to the Inkscape 0.92.two downloads folio.

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  2. Click the box labelled Mac Bone X 10.seven Installer (xquartz) to download the DMG file, which contains the installer.

  3. One time the download has finished, open up your Downloads binder in the Finder. Once over again, you can open up this folder by selecting from the menu bar in the Finder. Double-click the Inkscape DMG file to open information technology.

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  4. Click and drag the Inkscape icon to the Applications icon as instructed in this window. This volition install Inkscape on your Mac.

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Step 3: Setting Upward Inkscape

  1. Open Inkscape by double-clicking its icon in the Applications folder. Yous can open the Applications binder by selecting from the carte du jour bar in the Finder.

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  2. Click OK in this window, which appears the showtime time Inkscape is opened. Expect for Inkscape to open. This might take a few minutes, since Inkscape is scanning all the font files in your organization. The side by side fourth dimension you open Inkscape, it will non take almost as long to show up.

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  3. Once Inkscape does open, its interface volition appear inside XQuartz. When Inkscape is running, you lot volition encounter the name "Inkscape" in the title bar of your window, just the menu bar will evidence the name "XQuartz" .

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  4. With Inkscape open, select the XQuartz preferences past selecting from the card bar.

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  5. Click the Input tab, and configure its settings as shown hither.

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  6. Click the Pasteboard tab, and configure its settings as shown here.

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  7. Shut Preferences. You are now ready to use Inkscape.

Note that when using Inkscape version 0.92 with XQuartz, its keyboard shortcuts apply the control key, rather than the usual command key.

Homebrew and MacPorts

In addition to the preceding "standard" methods of installing Inkscape, you can also build Inkscape on your Mac using Homebrew or MacPorts. These methods are intended for users who prefer these environments; about users should utilise the recommended methods above. You volition need to be familiar with the macOS terminal and you lot may need to install Xcode and its control line programmer tools in social club to employ these methods. Depending on the type of Inkscape build, you may as well demand XQuartz.

Using MacPorts

  1. Install MacPorts. Read the guide on how to do so, since there are different methods and requirements depending on your operating system version.
  2. Meet the MacPorts instructions for Inkscape 0.92.2 for the specific MacPorts installation commands to use.