It's very stable & really does almost everything Illustrator does, only it's WAY better because it's Open Source & totally FREE. Making the above changes took about half an hour & now Inkscape.

Just Google 'Inkscape Mac GTK themes & toolsets'. There are several sites that show you how to do this. SVG is considered an excellent format for creating and designing logos and banners or any media that has been edited in vector mode. I upgraded the butt-ugly Inkscape Windoze GUI theme to a snazzy dark grey GTK theme & tool set, which makes it look & almost like native Mac software. I makes my workflow much smoother & more efficient. Inkscape is a great free vector tool you can use to create real, professional level logo design for real clients. This means I can use Inkscape without constantly stumbling around the keyboard. I altered the XQuartz (X11) keyboard commands to use the Command key instead of the Control key. 91 runs almost like a native Mac app-once I made two changes:ġ. Inkscape was always awkward on a Mac because it used X11 & Windoze key commands & the clunky Windoze interface.īut now Inkscape. I've been waiting for the promised Inkscape Mac native version for years, ever since Adobe bought & killed Freehand because Illustrator couldn't compete with it.

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