well, some important points have been raised here. firstly when I refer to professionals like niyam, they have no time to do huge work arounds. and what ever small work arrounds they need are of course needed for better quality in the end. so while inkscape might need some work arounds, it produces good quality work in the end. and rest works as good as the other non free software. and if these people are ready to share what ever "work around " they have doen and make people aware of them I think complaining is nothing but anti foss. so I can asure every one that every one of us may have donw work arounds for non free and free softwares at some point of time. softwares are never up the the mark every time we use them. some times some may not do exactly what we want and work around is needed. but that is the case with non free softwares. so from the experiences of many like Niyam, Dr. Nagarjun and many others I can say inkscape is pritty good enough. I can't comment on autocad like things again but with free software I only know tally has no other alternative. regards, Krishnakant.
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