For example, you're designing something like a flyer in Inkscape and you need to copy over some text from an email or text document. Really annoying because I really need to use those from time to time in my native language Dutch.Īnother problem is how to do copy/paste between native OS X application and Inkscape. Entering accented characters was not possible unfortunately. So how do we combine these features (I need both) in Inkscape on OS X? With my default/out of the box installation of Inkscape, I only had the ALT key as a shortcut key like in Linux. Especially the keyboard interaction of an out of the box setup can be clunky.įor example: in Inkscape on Linux, the ALT key is used for some operations (kerning) and handy shortcuts (cloning), while in OS X you need the OPTION/ALT key for entering accented and other special characters (e.g. This extra layer makes the user experience unfortunately less streamlined than with native applications. On OS X, Inkscape and the Gimp are not completely native applications, but they depend on X11.app. No wonder I have them installed on my MacBook too. Being open source applications, they have firm roots in the Linux world, but luckily they are also available for Windows and Mac OS X.

Inkscape and the Gimp are trusty tools in my daily tool box for various vector and bitmap image editing.

Is inkscape for mac