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inkscape command line, where is it on mac?

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This is a kinda silly question. I've installed Inkscape on my mac (Marvericks OS) following this page http://www.inkscape.org/en/download/mac-os/

I know there is a command line option with inkscape. I tried to type inkscape on Terminal and there is no such command. I'm confused... Does this mean that I need to install the linux version of inkscape in order to use the command line?

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olala Avatar asked Feb 28 '14 02:02

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I have Inkscape installed in /Applications and running this from a terminal does the trick:

/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape --help  Usage: inkscape-bin [OPTIONS...] [FILE...]  Available options:   -V, --version                             Print the Inkscape version number  ... etc.

For ease of use symlink it to /usr/local/bin i.e.:

ln -s /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape \       /usr/local/bin/inkscape

In general, on MacOS Inkscape needs to be called with an absolute path, and all files given as arguments should also be full paths. See also:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1449251

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