Thanks. That's just what I wanted to hear. I am a total neophyte with Inkscape, but I'm sure I can find tutorials on those techniques. This was really welcome news.

Geoff

I would like to produce some forecast weather maps. Mainly it's shaded areas as different precipitation types (I assume that's simple) overlayed with fronts (cold, warm, stationary). I've placed some fronts at the bottom of this post (Forget the arrows. They're there to explain wind flow at the fron...