Inkscape, i am sorry

I want apologise to this great program. Why? 

Well my mom asked me to draw this one emblem or coat of arms thing for hers. I think great! I will just use OpenOffice Draw because I want to draw and the name of the thing is draw and I don't have Microsoft Office. The thing, that I shall refer to as a crest, was made of basic shapes that I have seen of Microsoft Office like a shield and these other rectangular things that I can't describe (ribbons?). I think I should now mention that I run Ubuntu Linux and I installed Kubuntu-kde4-desktop which kinda messed my system up (all my fault) and basically I can't use OpenOffice. 

SOOO... I think no big, I will just use a live disc, save on usb and I am cool. Turns out OpenOffice doesn't come with the shapes I wanted. GRRR!!! so I decide I will use this other rather widely used operating system, that has a nice Office Suit (OS V), in a virtual machine. That way I dnt want it infecting my PC. 

TJO!!! Virtual box doesn't have USB support (I had not really used Virtual box up till now since installing it last year). I can't get shared folders to work either. I couldn't help thinking: "maybe if i had once set up a LAN I would fair better in getting the shared folder to work because they call it a sort network set up by virtual box between my PC and OS V."). 

After a whole day of installing OS V as and tryin to get USB working (maybe not the whole day, but a long time), I decide: SCREW IT! I will just use Inkscape now I have previously touched Inkscape and I thought it was crap. I thought I would rather use Microsoft Visio. EH!!! boy was I wrong!

I had fun with inkscape. I needed approximately ten minutes of drawing before I had the hang of it. In the ten minutes I had learned some shortcuts and I was getting better than I expected results(I hope I can say that). It was great I drew the thing in around two hours (I had approximated four when I started because I thought Inkscape is bad).I then exported the drawing directly as pdf which wonderful because I was afraid Inkscape would either be hard be incompartible with the computers at the Internet cafe where I was going to print the Crest.

Now I want to say: I am sorry for judging you Inkscape.

UPDATE: My Mom told me that she wanted to have colours in the crest and unfortunately I couldn't get it right with Inkscape. Well I exported the drawing into png (I think pix map) and opened it with another program that I had not used to much in the past: GIMP. Gimp comes with multiple windows and I hate that thus i don't use it much. It is not hard to use and it did exactly what i wanted it to do. I got colours and it was time to print the crest. 

The internet cafe where I wanted to print from didn't have Microsoft Office (probably because it is expensive) but they had OpenOffice. No big, I made the header gave it a nice border with a shadow and I thought it was fine. I was proud of my work. 

Time to print: AH!! the cafe had ran out of ink and they could only print for me in their other computers that ran Microsoft Office but no OpenOffice. I have to open the documents again, save them as .doc then give them to the lady to print. I wish I had checked before I saved because it turns out Microsoft Office does not surpport the way I had made the thing and it chaged it a little to fit its... yah.

So I got it printed and all is well.