On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Adam Pearson wrote:
FWIW, I am doing a small project - as a means of learning both Inkscape and Illustrator - on both in parallel and I am already listing comments on what I am doing in each program - that is, I have got my own comparison chart building up.
Interesting!
I am not a great believer in these comparisons as they are very personal, depending on each person's background experience, whether they are a keyboard" or "mouse" person, how and in what order they like to do things and so on. I suspect there will be no "better" program, just "different".
Agreed. There are many different kinds of users, each with their own expectations, and for some one app will suit them much better than another. I think we can expect for a certain subset of vector app users, Inkscape will fit the bill, whereas for others it won't.
Of course, I think it's important we remember what our goals are for Inkscape - to provide a fully compliant SVG drawing application that does some cool stuff and to create a fun and open development community. Trying to provide an alternative to Illustrator is just asking for frustration, whereas if we focus on having fun and doing cool stuff there's no telling how far we'll get.
Bryce