1.3 Sources of Inkscape Art
A tool is dead without a community of users, and a community of users is nonexistent without a body of work that can be studied and reused. Inkscape wouldn’t be quite as fun to use if you always had to start a project from an empty page, or if you had no one to share your work with.
The two main reasons to seek SVG art are learning and reusing. Reusing is simple; this is what the whole idea of “clipart” is about. Instead of drawing everything from scratch, you take elements created by someone else and combine them with your own stuff (only if the license for those elements permits that, of course).
When reusing others’ art, source format is not too important as long as Inkscape can read it (Appendix B). Not only SVG, ...
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