![]() Google sponsors coders, people volunteer, and others make donations to the project, which allows for volunteer and paid work to be done, all the time. Yes, good software requires money, but there are more ways to fund a software project than via sales. This whole "it can't be as good, or else they'd be selling it" is flawed and false. If I couldn't buy Illustrator, I could do just fine using Inkscape alone as a professionally trained designer. I personally use both AI and Inkscape daily, and often simultaneously, and it's funny how they fill in each others gaps.ĪI is better with text, Inkscape is far superiour at general illustration (colouring, making icons, comics, illustrations). Inkscape has had RGBa colours for a long time, has advanced path effects and opens and saves SVG FAR better than AI. I know entire groups of professional designers who use Inkscape (even though they've purchased Illustrator) because even for all the money you pay for illustrator, Inkscape has better features. ![]() I't not, nor has it ever been a major player in the industry, although, the codebase is supposed to be merged with inkscape in the future - kep your eyes open! that should say something.Īs for Xara, apart from it being open-sourced and a fast renderer, I haven't done too much with it. However, even Corel uses Adobe's software to do their own promotions. Corel's doing fine now, and they have a rock-solid software suite that does everything you need it to (but onl windows only). Corel almost went bankrupt though, thanks to Microsoft (Corel had released a version of linux and had ported their software to Linux providing a direct competitor to Microsoft's windows platform). You cannot go wrong with AI.Ĭorel Draw is a great piece of software, truly advanced. Well, I'm disappointed by the replies you got here, so I'll lay it all down nice and easy for you.Īdobe Illustrator is, and for the better part of a decade has been the leading vector app in the industry.
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