How to run Inkscape on Mac Leopard
If you like Inkscape (an open source alternative to Adobe Illustrator) and have a Mac with Leopard; you will figure that it after installation it will not work. It will say that font caching might take time, but never start. It’s because of a simple bug, with a simple solution. Just open a terminal (Applications/Utilities) and type this, followed by an enter;
mkdir ~/.fontconfig
After that it should start normally.
And a note: Latest snapshot doesn’t seem to work. Just grab the latest stable package.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:39
Thanks! This was very helpful. I wonder why Inkscape can not simply create the folder if it does not exist.
June 10th, 2008 at 19:12
Thanks a lot! I had almost resigned to using Inkscape only on PC
June 11th, 2008 at 16:50
Thanks! Sorted me out!
June 15th, 2008 at 17:29
Many thanks. Your blog post just saved my day!
June 16th, 2008 at 23:06
Thank you so much. Saved my day too!
June 17th, 2008 at 17:49
dear, no words, 2 min. and inkscape works on; why inkscape.org don’t notice this simply terminal bug solution in the download of the leopard dmg versions? ak19/Milan/Italy
June 20th, 2008 at 2:16
Thanks! This works a treat. I was about to dump Inkscape!
July 5th, 2008 at 2:07
Wow, thanks! After days of sadness thinking I couldn’t use Inkscape, your post has renewed my love of life!