Comment 9 for bug 171186

> BTW, I have yet to see a design company that solely relies on Freehand :)

There are still, a couple years on, several places I know (not to mention our little shop) that use Freehand as their primary vector tool. Used to be the only one, but for paranoia of it being not supported. It's used often with custom plugins, for things like cartographic work. which cannot be easily replaced therefore.

I sadly am not smart enough to help with this (wish I was), but wanted to say that if Inkscape worked well with Freehand files (even just 10 and 11 variants) and this was advertised, then a lot more folks would suddenly jump on the bandwagon and help out.