In order to select objects with the rubberband in Inkscape, an artist must completely select the entire area of the object, not just select over part of it, to include it in the selection. Instead of holding down the Ctrl key and pressing + or - to zoom the canvas, in Inkscape the artist simply presses the + or - key to zoom. In 0.46, it is possible to set up Space to work as in Illustrator: even though there's no Hand tool, holding Space and dragging canvas will work if you turn on this mode in Inkscape Preferences (Scrolling tab). Holding the arrow key speeds up the pan in that direction. In Inkscape, the artist can also pan around the canvas by holding the Ctrl and pressing the arrow keys. Alternatively, rotate mouse wheel to pan vertically, rotate with shift to pan horizontally. Instead of using the Spacebar for panning around a document, in Inkscape an artist can press and hold the middle mouse button (or mouse wheel) and drag the canvas in any direction. Color painting over objects (CS4 added this feature with the name Blob brush).Edit gradients with handles on-canvas (CS4 added this feature).Keys to move/rotate/scale by screen pixels.Clones, tiled clones, edit clones on canvas.Things Inkscape can do that Illustrator cannot:
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Conversely, Inkscape opens Adobe's AI (since version 9) and PDF files (with some limitations: gradient meshes are approximated by lattices of small paths, and transparency modes don't work). Illustrator can import Inkscape SVG and export SVG which Inkscape usually opens without problems (there's one issue to be aware of). 16.1 Inkscape's node editing advantages.16 Working with Nodes (Anchor Points) and Paths.14 Proportional Scaling and Center Point : Shift and Control Keys.5 Things Inkscape can do that Illustrator cannot:.4 Things Illustrator can do that Inkscape cannot do:.2 To Save Files in Inkscape for Use with Adobe Illustrator and vice versa.