So simple yet so unclear in their documentation! Thank you that indeed appears to work! I had tried every one of the tool bar menus and never even noticed the one at the top of xml editor window. Yes the pad wants to be on the copper, it is the standard marker for pin 1 on a chip on the board and the generic IC has it, but for some reason the Arduino folks didn't do it. Now to see if I can sort out text. At the moment (after working once) if I simply delete some text Inkscape totally rewrites the xml in to a form that Fritzing utterly rejects (the pcb turns in to on large black box with no pads!). So its back to figuring out what I did (and apparently in what order I did it) the first time. My hair will be grey by the end of thisi (but I may yet get a working part ...)!
Peter Van Epp