One thing to look out for is the spacing of letters in this sort of drawing. Notice the text characters that are above the path that they are on are spaced properly and the ones that are inside the path that they are on are jammed together? You can fix this by manually kerning those or creating a l...

I did have the Object Properties window open, and according to that, I did have the original selected. I used your Shift-D tip to get that one selected. I did then try to move it with the mouse though - I'll try the cursor keys next time though. I'll also pay more attention to the status bar at the ...

Actually, nevermind. I tried again, and I think I got it this time. The first time I had selected the white rectangle, the text AND the circle I wanted to put the text on when I applied the mask. This time, I selected only the white rectangle and the text before I applied the mask. One hard part was...

So...using the longer guide, I was kinda able to get the transparent text thing to work once, but only when I tried to do just that without putting the whole thing together. When I tried to do it again to put the entire logo together, it didn't work. I'm not entirely sure what I did wrong the 2nd ti...

Xav, your understanding of what I am trying to achieve is correct. I won't be able to try any of this until I get home tonight though. I think I understand your directions (as long as I don't run into the potential bug), but I am very new to Inkscape. I installed it just to attempt to make this logo...

I am trying to create a logo using Inkscape. I want to have some curved text on a hollow circle. That part I have figured out how to do. The part I'm struggling with is making the text transparent so that it will end up being whatever color it ends up being printed on. How can I achieve this? I got ...