Slika:Euro Construction.svg

[edit] Summary

Description	English: ADF and BCDE intersect at D. BCDE, GH, and IJ are parallel. BCDE intersects centerline at C. This vector image was created with Inkscape.
Source	own work
Date	19:33, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Author	Erina
Permission	PD (Isn't the Euro symbol copyrighted, anyway?)

[edit] Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. Afrikaans | Alemannisch | Aragonés | العربية‎ | Български | Català | Česky | Cymraeg | Dansk | Deutsch | Ελληνικά | English | Español | Esperanto | Euskara | فارسی‎ | Français | Galego | 한국어 | हिन्दी | Hrvatski | Ido | Bahasa Indonesia | Íslenska | Italiano | עברית‎ | Kurdî / كوردي | Latina | Lietuvių | Magyar | Bahasa Melayu | Nederlands | Norsk (bokmål) | Norsk (nynorsk) | 日本語 | Polski | Português | Ripoarish | Română | Русский | Shqip | Slovenčina | Slovenščina | Српски | Svenska | ไทย | Türkçe | Українська | Tiếng Việt | Walon | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | 粵語 | +/-

[edit] Description and references

This diagram illustrates how to draw a euro symbol, based on official documentation, and has been prepared specifically for Wikipedia and released to the public domain.

The official diagrams of the euro symbol are copyrighted and downloadable from the official European Commission site, and include:

• constr_en.wmf Windows Metafile (WMF) with constructions
• euro_en.wmf Windows Metafile (WMF) without constructions
• constr_en.tif TIFF with constructions
• euro_en.tif TIFF without constructions

The official diagrams are provided in industry standard TIFF and WMF formats, and are meant to be imported into a graphics editing program, such as Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

The Wikipedia version was created with Adobe Illustrator and rendered in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. It bases the guidelines for construction of the symbol on the key data provided for the official symbol, but it was prepared from scratch and does not duplicate the official diagram, and it is released to the public domain.

A very similar color version of this diagram is available at Image:EuroConstLargeColor.png, showing the official euro symbol colors. It's prettier to look at but correspondingly more difficult to read.

[edit] Editing

• Changed the decimal separator to comma (International System used in Europe). --F l a n k e r 19:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
• Modified the borders of the symbol and trasformed the arrows. --F l a n k e r 22:13, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
• Added the letters. --F l a n k e r 22:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)