Inkscape for Windows

User Reviews

• Unintuitive

  foosball6263/11/2016

  Pros

  Never crashed for me.

  Cons

  I found it slow and unintuitive. Just zooming in and out is confusing! Pick the zoom tool, draw a rectangle, and it zooms in. OK. Now draw the rectangle the other way and ... it still zooms in. Alright, whatever. When I hold down shift, the zoom icon changes from a + to a -. Well, obviously now it's going to zoom o... er, in? I guess? Are you kidding me! Loading moderately-sized images, panning and zooming are all noticeably slow (on a newish 4 core laptop). I had a rectangular image of a hat on a white background and wanted to make it into a hat-shaped image. I'm certainly not experienced at image editing, but I've done this sort of think in Photoshop before without any help. I looked at every tool, every menu option and went through every tutorial. Then I looked in the web. 30 minutes in all, but no luck. Forget it.

  Summary

  Don't use if you can avoid it.

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• crashes when selecting preferences in print dialog

  bruce shand12/29/2015

  Pros

  I didn't explore using the program because of the serious flaw noted in cons.

  Cons

  Crashes when selecting preferences in print dialog. That's it. So I uninstalled it.

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• Decent for free program, otherwise avoid if possible

  Lauren Tom4/8/2015

  Pros

  I downloaded this for a design project after unable to access adobe illustrator. I can only come up with one advantage: Inkscape is user-friendly and easy to pick up.

  Cons

  After being relatively comfortable with using illustrator, Inkscape seems lacking (even if it is free). Not enough tools - eg. you cannot stretch and manipulate objects at all It seems 'medieval' compared to other programs out there.

  Summary

  Not worth it, don't bother downloading.

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• ALMOST awesome

  YupHiThere3/21/2015

  Pros

  Does a lot -Saves to PDF -Opens PDF -Can export PNG -Layers -Convert a line drawing to an editable path

  Cons

  -I can't see the sublayers...I don't think this is an option -All exports, even to PDF with 300 dpi...Appears jagged...I am utterly disappointed by that. Otherwise it works beautifully -More manual and less user friendly, but getting used to it, in some ways I appreciated the layout of where everything is

  Summary

  It's okay to work with if you want to make a quick vector and looks best on smaller sizes. But it doesn't export well...

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• pity you cant print/cut

  TYSONVOLVO8/19/2014

  Pros

  if you could print/cut it would be brillient

  Cons

  cant use printer or cutter plotter,,,,,,

  Summary

  would be great if you could use this programe directly with a printer or cutter plotter.....until this is fixed.. i will be uninstalling it.... thanks but no thanks inkscape...

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• Great programme.

  Guy_T6/25/2014

  Pros

  Deserves the time you may spend to learn all its rich features, e.g. Filters.

  Cons

  Inkscape assumes that if you download it from Thailand, for instance, you speak Thai. Then, menus are in Thai dusted with English words. I could not find any assistance from the Help menu in this regard. The trick is: 1/ Click on the last menu on the left. 2/ Scroll it down till you see an entry with a keyboard shortcut = Shift+Ctrl+P. Select this entry. 3/ This opens a page in English (miracle!) "Inkscape preferences". Select "Interface" 4/ On the right of the box "Language", use the selector to scroll a long list of languages. 5/ Select the one you want. 6/ There is no :"Save" button. Just close the page and restart Inkscape. (I am indebted to http://en.kioskea.net/faq/15154-inkscape-change-language for knowing that trick).

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• I can't believe it's free

  Captive_Audience3/18/2014

  Pros

  Easy to use and a lot of features.

  Cons

  None that I can see.

  Summary

  I think this software is great. I normally use CorelDraw and I will continue to use it, at least for now because I'm used to it. I can't afford the new version of Corel that's compatible with Windows 8.1 so I thought I would try this out. I am surprised at how well it works and all the great features there are.

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• This software is great!

  cathyd196010/26/2013

  Pros

  If you know Illustrator you will know this

  Cons

  I don't see any cons yet

  Summary

  I love this software.

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• It gets Too slow

  OldNickToo6/13/2013

  Pros

  It's easy and fun to use to do stuff.

  Cons

  It just got slower and slower as I added to my relatively simple 1st attempt. It became almost unusable. Printing to files like PDF, bitmap were also cripplingly slow.

  Summary

  It is fun to use, but gets slow if there is much in the drawing. I did not really try it for technical drawing, to see if it was useful as a real drafting package. I give it 2.5 for being fun

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• Can do a decent bit as long as you don't want to print.

  roosclan1/3/2013

  Pros

  Pretty versatile

  Cons

  limited export formats -- One Not that user-friendly CAN'T PRINT

  Summary

  I got this as a free option to CorelDRAW, and well... you get what you pay for in this instance. I am a fan of freeware, but Inkscape just doesn't live up to what it is supposed to be. You can do a decent amount of work, but it takes a while to figure out as it is not all that user-friendly. For several version, the program will not print. I have designed things in Inkscape that I want to take with me into the garage to work on, and I can't because the program acts like it prints, but doesn't send anything to the printer. Several of my friends have had this issue as well, and I have even submitted a bug report on it, to no avail (with many strangers reporting they have the same problem). If you want to export your design so you can print it in another program, you have the option of exporting to a bitmap or... a bitmap. I hate to say it, but I cannot recommend Inkscape until they get the printing bug fixed. I would like them to make it more versatile when exporting to other formats.

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