You're getting a lot of upvotes. It seems Inkscape is pretty popular. However, I'm afraid that it has been the source of most of the disappointment I'm talking

You're getting a lot of upvotes. It seems Inkscape is pretty popular. However, I'm afraid that it has been the source of most of the disappointment I'm talking about. I found it to be difficult to learn, and difficult to use once I learned it. It also produced files that wouldn't print. Of course, the latter might be a problem with my printer driver (or whatever), but, strangely, when I took an Inkscape-produced SVG, and printed it to a file -- an SVG file -- then the resulting file would print. (This was on Ubuntu, BTW.) In any case, I'm glad lots of people have found an SVG creation tool that they like, but I'm still looking.