The description does not seem to be very clear in the online "Ch13". This leads me to doubt buying the book which I would like to do. Here in the UK Amazon has " The Book of Inkscape (Paperback) by Dmitry Kirsanov (Author) " but is not yet released and the manual shows " Ink...

Thanks,looks complicated but I'll have a good read and try. Anyone know of a good book on this subject?

Perhaps when I selected edit - select all in all layers this did not select the text objects. Yes, I resized it in Fireworks. If there was a way of including an image I could show you the effect.

I've searched but cannot see instructions on adding filters (I've seen a site with filters as .svg files) and plugins. Where's the best tutorial for this? Thanks.

My first attempt at Inkscape (graphically challenged!). The logo is viewable here: http://www.acdorchester.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=17&Itemid=184 . The size I created in Inkscape was 200x200px. I wanted it to be 130x130px. You can see that there is text arran...