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Beginners' Questions Has the Macintosh version caught up yet?
  1. #1
    K K @fugueink

    Has there been a significant increase in the items that Inkscape does on Windows and Linux but won't do on Macintosh?

    The latest stable version does not support a whole bunch of things on the Mac (the keyboards is what drives me crazy), but I need to be able to open EPS files. I've tried online converters, but the SVGs they make won't open in Inkscape.

    When I complained to the site that posted the EPS files (Vecteezy), they say it's fine. (Although at least once, I got somebody on Windows to try it, and it didn't work for her, either.)

    Upgrading and the downgrading again is a huge production number, so I'd appreciate knowing if it's worth upgrading without having to do that.

    Thank you!

  2. #2
    Paddy_CAD Paddy_CAD @Paddy_CAD

    I'm using Inkscape 1.3 beta on macOS 13.4.  I downloaded some randomly selected free images from Vecteezy. These were delivered as EPS files, which Inkscape opened without errors.

    Can you post a link to one of the images that's causing problems for you?

  3. #3
    K K @fugueink

    Please forgive me, Paddy_CAD, but things have gotten a little nutty in real life. I appreciate your kindness and hope you'll still feel it when I have a chance to get back to this.

     

    Thank you!

  4. #4
    K K @fugueink

    My apologies for the delay. Family issues.

     

    My problem is really more the keyboard. I can't get back the familiar keystrokes that I had in Inkscape 1.0. Drives me nuts. I tried saving the default keyboard from 1.0 under another name and using it in 1.1.2. It didn't work.

     

    It turns out the image in question is actually a PNG stuck inside an EPS file. I've pointed this out to Vecteezy, my friend has, and yet they insist the problem is in our set.

     

    Sigh. I wish I had any skill at drawing and didn't have to rely on tweaking others' work. . . .

     

    Thank you.

  5. #5
    K K @fugueink

    Can someone at least tell me if the keyboards are usable now?

     

    I really need the keystrokes I used in 1.1, but none of the included keyboards seem to have the shortcuts from 1.1, and trying to import the 1.1 keyboard doesn't seem to work.

     

    Thank you!

     

    K

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