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HERE'S WHAT I THINK
Inkscape kicks Illustrator's butt
Now don't get me wrong... Illustrator is a fine program that's been around many years... but that's part of the problem. It's a tremendously bloated application at this point, it's very space/memory hungry, and even on a relatively new system, it can lag quite a bit when working on a large illustration.
Inkscape, by comparison, has come quite a ways in the last few years -- every release is more and more stable, stronger than the last and adding more features. The shape/vector optimization in inkscape is excellent, as is the trace functionality.
Did I mention that it's free?
Did I mention that it's open source?
And that it runs on Windows, OS X *and* Linux?
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Inkscape. Draw Freely.
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From the Blogs: Inkscape Rocks
- Inkscape 0.47 Released | BlenderNation
- Inkscape rocks! (Now if they would add being able to use svgfonts and have multi-page. That would totally top it.) 17 prokoudine Nov 27th, 2009 at 4:10 pm. @sqgsgds. As a matter of fact SVG Fonts are supported since 0.47 now. ...
- Synfig's drawing tools are clumsy, but Inkscape rocks. Must try ...
- Synfig's drawing tools are clumsy, but Inkscape rocks. Must try this tomorrow. http://www.synfig.org/Svg2synfig.
- J5's Blog » I would just like to say PiTiVi rocks
- The parallel with GIMP and Inkscape is not good: even if the interface was horrible, GIMP was able to get the job done for as long as I remember? around RHL 9 when I switched to Linux as my main desktop after learning its (horrible at ...
What can Inkscape do that Illustrator cannot?
(from the Inkscape Wiki)
- Edit SVG source directly
- Clones, tiled clones, edit clones on canvas
- Keys to move/rotate/scale by screen pixels
- Shapes as objects
- Edit gradients with handles on-canvas
- Edit nodes with keyboard
- One-click paint bucket fill
- Color painting over objects
What can Illustrator do that Inkscape cannot?
(from the Inkscape Wiki)
- Gradient meshes
- Multiple strokes and fills for one object
- Color management for print (ICC Profiles, etc.)
- PMS color
- Natively work with graphs based on data
- Free transform and perspective transform (only via extension)
- Blends (only via extension)
YOUR TURN!
Fetching blurbs now... please stand bylggboy says:
I think Illustrator is way better than inkscape, it more professional, and stable. but inkscape its better than freehand.
Posted April 28, 2009
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