I finally figured it out. You have to ungroup plus select the txt then perform a union on it. I noticed that the status bar said that difference would only accept 2 paths at a time to perform the action. So union satisfies this and allows me to do the difference on the txt. Maybe useful for other ne...

Very strange still doesn't work. Combine works and intersection just erases the whole thing.

Thanx I will try when iget home. Why do u think that it is coded like this? Seems a little counter intuitive to me not that I'm complaining.

I'm having a similar issue to http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=417. I'm very new to Inkscape and so I've been trying to work through some of the tutorials on this site http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/AShortExampleLogo.html When I got down to the part where you are su...