They do work together well! I actually have the whole CS5 suite (yay for student discounts!), so I mostly use Illustrator for my vector program. I have played around a little bit with Inkscape in the past, and if I recall it’s actually pretty close. There are a few differences (no center line trace for instance), but the thing that always gets me when moving from Adobe to freeware is that the logic is always so different. I can never find anything where I expect it!
Good luck with it, and let me know how it goes!
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