I’ve been working almost exclusively with Inkscape for the last 14 months. Version 0.46 now does a remarkable job at importing Adobe’s native AI and PDF, and exporting PDF’s. The AI format is still proprietary, but in July 2008, Adobe’s Portable Document Format became an ISO Open Standard, meaning that it is publicly available and that it can be implemented in applications for free.
For the sake of corporate compatibility, I am still designing my presentation layouts on Illustrator to save them in PDF, but I have to admit that Inkscape definitely rocks when it comes to flexibility. The SVG’s Alpha Transparency allows me to reach better coloud fading effects and I find Inkscape much faster in processing shapes with quantities of nodes in the three zeroes figures.
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