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Compiling Inkscape under Mac OS X

Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator^(TM), Freehand^(TM), and CorelDraw^(TM) that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons meta-data, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, Postscript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional planned work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development processes.

Compiled package install note:

If you downloaded Inkscape package for MacOSX 10.3 you might not see the tool icons on the left of the program screen (instead you see a blue, aquafied rectangle). This is a bug in the package put together by M. Rick.
Ctrl-clik to "show package content" command in the finder to open the application package;
then move to Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/,
and copy the inkscape folder to /sw/share/ .
If this folder does not exist on your system, just create it using e.g. the terminal. After that all tool icons should show up nicely in the program interface.

Known bugs:

• When opening modal windows, usually some menus open behind the window.
• Exporting to bitmap report an error "The chosen area to be exported is invalid".
• Saving as Adobe Illustrator doesn't work.