So, for me - at least so far - Inkscape is NOT A SOLUTION. And, finally, it isn't clear to me that I was ever able to save the SVG file in a way that could be successfully printed.

(Am I missing something here.) Also, the 'Apply' button is not always highlighted, but you can get it active by switching font (say from Roman to Italic and back again). Also, the text tool seemed to want to create any new text in a huge way - in a 10080 point font size! You _can_ change this back to, say, 14 pt in the text tool window, but it is a pain to have to do this every time, even though you may have thought you had set the default font and size earlier. For one thing, all the numerals on my axes were converted from a Times-like font to Helvetica.

I did not find this in any way easy to do (unlike AI). HOWEVER, in my case, all I wanted to do was to add some axis labels to some EPS graphs created by another app. This SVG file can then be opened in Inkscape.

My similar query got a response (from Kayosii) to install pstoedit, to convert (on the command line) somefilename.eps to somefilename.svg.

Inkscape eps file open