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Adobe Illustrator vs Inkscape: What are the differences?
What is Adobe Illustrator? Create logos, icons, sketches, typography and complex illustrations. The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile.
What is Inkscape? An open source vector graphics editor. It is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This software can be used to create or edit vector graphics such as illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts, logos and complex paintings.
Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape belong to "Graphic Design" category of the tech stack.
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Pros of Inkscape
Pros of Adobe Illustrator
- Vector Creation2
Pros of Inkscape
- Free3
- Simple design2
- Easy to use2
- Vector Creation2
- Linux compatible2
- Powerful1
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Cons of Adobe Illustrator
Cons of Inkscape
Cons of Adobe Illustrator
- Massive disk space usage3
- Adobe Updater to slow you down even more3
- Expensive2
- Not really a tool for web design1
- Clunky1
Cons of Inkscape
- Crashes sometimes1
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What is Adobe Illustrator?
The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile.
What is Inkscape?
It is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This software can be used to create or edit vector graphics such as illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts, logos and complex paintings.
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What companies use Inkscape?
What companies use Adobe Illustrator?
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What tools integrate with Adobe Illustrator?
What tools integrate with Inkscape?
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What are some alternatives to Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape?
Adobe InDesign
The industry's leading page layout and design software enables you to create, proof and publish documents for print and digital media. Ir has everything to create posters, books, digital magazines, eBooks, interactive PDFs and more.
Adobe Photoshop
It is the best in the world of graphic design and image processing software that will realize any of your ideas. Create and enhance photos, illustrations and 3D graphic objects.
Sketch
Easily create complex shapes with our state-of-the-art vector boolean operations and take advantage of our extensive layer styles.
Affinity Designer
No bloat, no gimmicks, just all the tools you need, implemented how you always dreamed. It is a stripped back, pro-end workhorse that will always get your job done. It was created to thrive on the electric pace of the latest computing hardware. Live, responsive and incredibly fluid, it’s simply a joy to use.
Google Fonts
A library of 915 free licensed fonts, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and APIs for conveniently using the fonts via CSS and Android.