Hi, I just wanted to share my first experience with Inkscape (0.46) and Scribus; and basically, with Linux -Ubuntu- platform.

Technically, the whole project doesn't take advantage of most of the features of the programmes involved, but at least let me know what they are surprisingly well for, and what other features need a little bit more forum searching and exchange for me.

Based on ink sketches, I vectorized the images with Inkscape and composed every glyph. Then I simply copy/pasted them into Font Forge, and gave each a letter considering the abc... sequence as the order of a story told by the glyphs. I generated the font, and finally composed a 99.9% typographical file in Scribus, -which in fact looks 80% iconic-.

I found Inkscape great GREAT great for...
- vectorizing bitmap images, more than any other I know.
- managing nodes. It works incredibly intuitive and I got used right in the moment.

I freaked out trying to get how clips and masks work. Hope 0.47 made a step foreward on this.

http://issuu.com/marcelo.santorelli/docs/plato
(also in http://www.msantorelli.blogspot.com, in case you'd like to watch into other stuff of mine)

Thanks for having a look.
Best.
Marcelo.