Inkscape font box has background blocking
command line access to verbs (commands) to automate tasks.command line query options to examine objects in a drawing.export and conversions from command line, including batch export with GUI and commandline.persistent per-object export hints (filename, resolution).find dialog (find any object by type, style, id, etc).baseline snapping, alignment, distribution.Open Clip Art Library (OCAL) integration.Spiro splines (more convenient than Beziers).live path effects (pattern on path, sketch, various deformations, geometric constructions), stackable and applicable to groups.tweak tool to push, inset, outset, roughen paths and to paint/jitter colors.paint bucket tool to fill any bounded area with a path.unclumping (two-dimensional, incremental equidistant distribution of objects).tile tracing (tracing anything by a pattern of clones).clone tiler (can be used for two-dimensional object scattering with randomization and coloring).
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live clones (copies that are linked to the original and update when it's changed).other generic filters (turbulence, composite, displacement map, etc), ability to compose filter stacks.gaussian blur (not the same as feathering blurs everything, can be squeezed and rotated).smoother and more powerful bitmap tracer.ports for OSX and other Unixes, apart from Windows and Linux all ports have the same functionality (Xara's Linux port is stagnating, only Windows version is being developed).open, text-based, XML-based standardized format (the Xar File Format is a published standard too, but not XML, and not widely adopted).refuses to open-source its renderer library) completely free and open source (Xara Ltd.Inkscape is free software so is part of Xara Xtreme 3 (the renderer part of Xara is still closed and binary-only) but not 4. In brief: both are multi-platform and are protected by the GPL.