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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: JenNilesinMA on January 01, 2017, 07:49:30 AM

Title: Will Inkscape work on my particular Mac OS?
Post by: JenNilesinMA on January 01, 2017, 07:49:30 AM

I went online to Inkscape and saw "Latest stable version: Inkscape 0.91 - This .dmg file is for Mac OS X 10.7-10.10 and requires XQuartz."

Great. But my computer (MacBook Pro) is Mac OSX El Capitan v. 10.11.6 (15G1004)

Can I still download Inkscape? If there's a better, more updated version I should be using, please redirect me. Thank you.

Title: Re: Will Inkscape work on my particular Mac OS?
Post by: brynn on January 01, 2017, 08:03:10 AM

Welcome to the forum!

I'm not a Mac user, so I can't give you a straight answer for that.  But this section of the FAQ explains everything, which will probably make more sense to you.  The particular item you need to look at is not at the top, it's a few sections down.

Also, there are detailed installation instructions somewhere.  Let's see if I can find....  Oh yes, here:

https://inkscape.org/en/download/mac-os/

You may already be on that page, I'm not sure.  Be sure to read everything there, including all the links, and you'll have all the info there is.

But if you still have questions, feel free to ask.  We'll figure it out  :)

Title: Re: Will Inkscape work on my particular Mac OS?
Post by: Moini on January 01, 2017, 01:57:36 PM

I think it will work, if you mind the section about disabling Gatekeeper. But I can't promise... The next version, which is going to be released within the next couple of days, however, won't (at first, at least) be available for OS X. If you happen to know some OS X developers, or well versed users, please ask around if someone could imagine to help the Mac users out with this.

Title: Re: Will Inkscape work on my particular Mac OS?
Post by: JenNilesinMA on January 02, 2017, 12:41:46 PM

Thanks, everybody. I will read the material and give it a try!

Title: Re: Will Inkscape work on my particular Mac OS?
Post by: Pikaia on February 23, 2017, 03:23:34 PM

Hi JenNilesinMA et al,

I just joined minutes ago and came directly here on the same question: I have OS X El Capitan V 10.11.6

Jen -- were you able to get going with Inkscape?

 - Pikaia

Title: Re: Will Inkscape work on my particular Mac OS?
Post by: brynn on February 23, 2017, 06:41:15 PM

Welcome to the forum!

Have you followed these instructions?  https://inkscape.org/en/download/mac-os/  And some more info on using Inkscape on a Mac system here:  https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#mac-os-x-specific-issues

In case you run into trouble with MacPorts, we've just recently been notified about and unofficial test DMG version:  https://inkscape.org/en/~tghs/★inkscape-0921-tghs_2-x11-107-x86_64dmg

The stable version is expected to be ready in time for version 0.92.2.  :)

Title: Re: Will Inkscape work on my particular Mac OS?
Post by: Moini on February 23, 2017, 06:55:40 PM

Tim has just asked for a merge into the 0.92.x branch, only an hour ago or so. Seems like he and su_v are happy enough with the changes :D

Title: Re: Will Inkscape work on my particular Mac OS?
Post by: brynn on February 23, 2017, 07:08:47 PM

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