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[edit] 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: This is a large preview of this svg file


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. Foobazยทo< 01:44, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 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)