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I used Inkscape recently, and found it quite a nightmare to use, even if its UI reminded me of Corel Draw quite a bit.

That's what I get for spending like a decade primarily using Photoshop, I suppose.

It is impossible to use Inkscape without running through at least some of the tutorials. Once you have a good conceptual understanding and have found some of the stupid bits that make no sense (what, you expected "Object Properties ..." to contain, ooh I dunno, properties of the object?) it's entirely suited to doing proper work. But no, its interface is very bad on discoverability.

Inkscape is defiantly software where reading the manual is a good idea. I tried to use it with out doing so, and found it unusable.

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