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== See ==
== See ==


* [[CompilingMacOsX]] How to build and package Inkscape on Mac OS X
* [[CompilingMacOsX|Compiling Mac Os X]] How to build and package Inkscape on Mac OS X
* [[NativeUIMacOsX]] Mark progress towards a native UI for Mac OS X
* [[NativeUIMacOsX|Native UI Mac Os X]] Mark progress towards a native User Interface (UI) for Mac OS X


== Links ==
== Links ==

Revision as of 04:34, 19 December 2009

This page is added as mini-TOC of Mac information on this Wiki, and a scratch pad for Mac stuff awaiting a home of its own.

Installing Inkscape

Inkscape for Mac OS X is an X client: it runs under the X Windows System. You will need an X Windows Server installed for it to work. For 10.4.x users, X11 can be installed from your installation DVD. For 10.3.x users, you can get Apple's X Server, or use XDarwin.

Since version 0.43, the Inkscape deliverable has been a disk image with a properly packaged Mac OS X Bundle -- Inkscape.app. You can simply drag the Inkscape icon to where is most convenient for you, usually your Applications folder or possibly your Desktop. This hardly warrants the grandiose title or style of "installing", but it does mean that un-installing is simple and complete -- just drag the icon to the Trash when you are finished with Inkscape and no longer want it.

From version 0.44, the disk image will have an alias to your system-wide Applications folder, allowing you to very easily drop the Inkscape icon into the most useful place for it, and open that folder so that you can start Inkscape.

Otherwise start Inkscape by double clicking one of its documents and it will thereafter be available to you in the Dock and from the "Recent Items" menu-item.

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