{"id":2862,"date":"2019-02-20T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2024-05-22T12:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:13:34","slug":"inkscape-vs-adobe-illustrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/inkscape-vs-adobe-illustrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Inkscape VS Adobe Illustrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The information in this article is designed to inform users interested in purchasing Adobe Illustrator of a potential free alternative.\u00a0 Adobe Illustrator is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud now, and involves annual licensing costs that turn most folks off (<a href=\"https:\/\/ramtech.colostate.edu\/sample-page\/department-software-page\/#adobecc\">https:\/\/ramtech.colostate.edu\/sample-page\/department-software-page\/#adobecc<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Inkscape is a free and open source vector graphics editor for professionals and is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\">https:\/\/inkscape.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along the same vein as the recent article comparing GIMP and Adobe Photoshop (<a href=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/gimp-vs-adobe-photoshop\">https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/gimp-vs-adobe-photoshop<\/a>), I don&#8217;t use Illustrator myself, and therefore am a poor source for determining whether this is a good alternative or not.\u00a0 However, there are plenty of comparisons online from folks that actually do use this stuff.\u00a0 Check out the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/design.tutsplus.com\/articles\/inkscape-vs-illustrator-battle-of-the-vector-graphics-software--cms-93909\">https:\/\/design.tutsplus.com\/articles\/inkscape-vs-illustrator-battle-of-the-vector-graphics-software&#8211;cms-93909<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.templatetoaster.com\/inkscape-vs-illustrator-vector-graphics\">https:\/\/blog.templatetoaster.com\/inkscape-vs-illustrator-vector-graphics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The information in this article is designed to inform users interested in purchasing Adobe Illustrator of a potential free alternative.\u00a0 Adobe Illustrator is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud now, and involves annual licensing costs that turn most folks off (https:\/\/ramtech.colostate.edu\/sample-page\/department-software-page\/#adobecc). Inkscape is a free and open source vector graphics editor for professionals and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-cnsit","category-knowledge-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}