I guess a little more in depth explanation of what I am trying to accomplish is in order. First off, thank you for your replies, it is greatly appreciated. I am designing clock faces to be printed on both archival type paper and on to copper to be etched. For the paper dials there will not be a need...

After SEARCHing and ADVANCED Searching I am deferring to the expertise of this board for some help. I am building some basic designs for silkscreening and need to turn the designs to a NEGATIVE of what I desire to print to transfer the image to the silk screen. I've tried different approaches within...

Lazur and tylerdurden, thank you so much for your information. Being so new to Inkscape let alone a svg program I'm not sure if I fully understand your answers. BUT, I do get the gist of it. This did lead me to utilize my basic understanding to come up with a solution.
Thanks again, GregoryV

Is there a way to create a circle from the center out instead of from the outer edge of the circumference. That way I have a circle that I can grab and position in relation to the center of the circle than from the edge. This leads me to another question. Can I start creating a circle and then type ...

Thanks, will do...

Thank you so much for the reply. The only thing I will be doing is making a basic drawing in black and white, approx 6"x 6". This will then be saved to a thumb drive to be printed at KINKOS, at the same size 6x6. Sounds like I can just stay in SVG format thru out the process.

Thank you both, Lazur and Pilosopong for the feedback. Is there a difference in printing an svg file versus saving that file as a pdf? Do they turn out different?
Thanks again, GregoryV

I have been working through Tavmjong Bah's Guide to Vector Drawing tutorials and topics. This has been a great help to someone just starting out. The discussion on setting up a workspace of say 600 X 600 px is good for my initial drawings, but would like to set up the workspace to a size of 6 inches...