I've been a hardcore/diehard Corel Draw user for almost 10 years. My knowledge of the Corel Suite would probably be described as 'advanced'... I've even turned down a position with a new company (and it's salary increase) when I found out I'd be using 'the other guys' program instead of Corel.

Even with the bar set so high, incscape has still managed to totally impress me!

With that said, I'll still exclusively use Corel at work. They pick up the tab for it, afterall. However, I'm impressed enough by incscape , that I think I might be able to use it exclusively on my home machines.

Top drawer.

Tim

I've seen many works created with Corel and I suspect from what I've seen that it's much better than Illustrator - I've only used Illustrator before Inkscape. So it's great to hear a Corel user speak highly of Inkscape.

I spent an hour or so today playing around in Ink, basically running it through the gears and trying to learn what it can & can't do compared to Draw 12. Sometime, in the next week or two, I'll breakout the crayons and write my wish-list to the elves in Inkscape's R&D department.

For me the ability to customize a programs settings is a necessity. The ability to make custom two or three-key shortcuts are good, but custom macros are even better. One of GIMPs greatest features, for example, is how simple it is to bind macros to any thing listed in the menus. (MIDI learn, anyone?) So if you want to make a "screenshot" macro, you simply go to FILE, AQUIRE, SCREENSHOT and let your pointer hover on the SCREENSHOT command. Now press the keys you want to represent that command, I chose SHIFT CTRL ALT S, for example) and it automatically binds to those keys.

Sometimes working smarter trumps working harder.