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In the past, Inkscape has always felt clunky and like an afterthought on the Mac.

I’ve always felt that Inkscape possesses a lot of untapped potential. And I’m the most efficient in that program.īut I am a fan of options. I’m the most comfortable using Illustrator. In fact, I’ve been using Adobe Illustrator for roughly 20 years. I’m a casual fan of Inkscape, but not a regular user.

Useful Tools in the Inkscape’s Command Bar.

I want to get you up and running, not bogged down in text. If you want to focus solely on one aspect of Inkscape, you have that option. Given the size and scope that this crash course, I had to create this table of contents. This tutorial is designed to quickly teach you the basics of Inkscape and start creating vector art with this free, open-source program. EPS files have their uses, for sure, but they seem to be a standard output of Adobe Illustrator, which is a bit sad, because Inkscape (the open source vector editor I use) can’t open them (without some hassle with ghostscripts or something).In this article, I am giving you a crash course in Inkscape (version 1.2 release candidate as of writing). Recently I needed to change the colour of an EPS image and I didn’t want to do a hack job by just filling a new colour over a bitmap versions. I did a quick search for converting EPS files and saw several references to PDF and opening the PDF in Inkscape. I realised I didn’t need extra software to convert an EPS to PDF. I bet loads of people view their PDFs in Preview every day with no idea of its hidden power… Everything I need is already on my computer: Preview.

, Inkscape can export to a variety of other file formats. One thing Preview is quite good at is saving files in different formats. A list of available formats in your own Inkscape installation can be found at the bottom of. Grab Inkscape from its website, install and open it.

All I had to do was open the EPS in Preview and Save As… PDF. Step 3 - Open Converted EPS File Select your newly converted EPS file, and select Open. Run Inkscape, go to File>Open to import SVG file to the program. Step 4 - Follow PDF Import Settings Prompts A new window will appear. Your file will now be in your Inkspace design area. I was then able to open it directly with Inkscape and the objects were all in tact for me to change their fill and stroke to my heart’s content. Update 26 October 2012: Since X11 support has been dropped from OS X you have to take some extra steps to install Inkscape on Mountain Lion.