just in case from my last post you all thought I was giving Graphtec a hard time, I wasn't I was just expressing an opinion, NO all software does not do everything, I just thought it should have had a dxf translator, for me personally it would have been perfect, because AUTOCAD HANDLES TEXT CRAP, and I use this every day, so to import text to AutoCad would be my ideal, it really does not provide an ability to get outline fonts like even robo does, but I suppose horses for courses etc.
However in response to replacing Inkscape (for me anyway nodes in text are a PITA) I WILL buy DM at the show, as text is my only stumbling block, plus mats and welded words, I am sure all of you using Inkscape at some point must have experienced the the stuttering from text, so at least it will save me from deleting nodes and modifying which I find a nonsense (I appreciate Inkscape is free btw).
So Phil if you'll sell it to me I'll buy it anyway.
regards
Bill