Thanks for the prompt responses - will persevere and get to know what I'm doing. I want to transfer to using free and open source software as a matter of prinicpal.

I'm very new to Inkscape though I do have some (very limited) experience of using svg programs before. I'm slowly learning, but inputting text is proving an impossible task. I'm redrawing a logo to replace a bitmapped original with an svg. The log has some text along a circular path, but I can find ...