File talk:Zapfino.svg

Sandbox

I'm using this as a sort of sandbox. It's interesting that there's no obvious way for a viewer to see an svg file at a larger resolution. Of course add a bit of wiki syntax and we can get the large version below:

How did you get TextEdit to change the style of the word? When I type using Zapfino in either TextEdit or Pages, one style is determined and I can not select a different one. --Apple1976 (talk) 07:45, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

You can turn on all ligatures in Format:Font:Ligature. To break some up, maybe you could use a zero-width space. Foobaz·o< 01:44, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Copyright on typeface

I raised a question about this image at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. For purposes of documentation for this image, I reproduce the discussion in full below. Ipoellet (talk) 19:51, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Are fonts copyrighted?
I was working on moving free images to Commons when I came across Image:Zapfino.svg. This image specifically represents a font that, according to the article Zapfino, was created in 1998. Are fonts not themselves copyrighted? At least the specialty ones like this? And if it is copyrighted, then am I correct that this is not a free image and that the uploader was incorrect in claiming GFDL for it? If necessary, I can and will write up a fair-use rationale to cover its use in Zapfino if not the other articles. But I want to make sure it really is non-free first. Ipoellet (talk) 06:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I would say that the image is {{PD-ineligible}} instead of GFDL. Whatever intellectual property there is in a font must reside in the font file. If I have a legal copy of a font file, I have a right to use it, and I (not the font designer) own the copyright on my printed text. --teb728 t c 08:35, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Electronic representations of typefaces - i.e. .ttf files have been held to be eligable for copyright in the US, however a jpg/gif/png/svg of some (otherwise free) text written using a font is generally ineligible for copyright in the US. See [1] etc. Megapixie (talk) 13:31, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

If the image was just characters in a font, I'd agree, but there is some creative work gone into laying out the text, choosing shades of grey, etc., which entitles the uploader to claim copyright. Stifle (talk) 16:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Good information. Thanks, all. Ipoellet (talk) 23:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I’d be happy to release any creative addition of my own in this image to the public domain, if someone wants to use it and the GFDL is not an open enough license. As far as I know, there is no copyright problem with including outlines of glyphs in an SVG file, and then distributing it. If there were, that would be a significant problem for anyone trying to distribute vector graphics which include text. —jacobolus (t) 19:20, 19 August 2008 (UTC)