Review: Inkscape 0.42.2 vs. FreeHand MXa
September 9th, 2005
As part of my ongoing research into how easy it would be for an
artist to move from the Mac OS X platform to Linux, I decided to take a
look at the open source Inkscape
application and compare it to a popular Macintosh drawing program,
Macromedia FreeHand. In a prior job, and as a side business some
years ago, I used FreeHand pretty regularly to create graphics.
With FreeHand as my standard (I had tried Adobe Illustrator back in
those days and found it very non-intuitive to use), I determined to find
out if I could find any serious deficiencies in Inkscape that would make it unsuitable
for a former FreeHand user to work with.