Problem with textcomp package

Question

When I put \usepackage{textcomp} in the preamble, nothing seems to be added to my MiKTeX package database.

Upon using \textcopyleft to insert a glyph from that character set, an ugly bitmap version of the copyleft character appears.

Checking the "Comprehensive Latex Symbol List" reveals that in there is definitely a nice vectorized one, although it claims that the character is obtained from the textcomp package.

Any ideas ?

Answer 1

Perhaps as an alternative, just use

\usepackage{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
\newcommand{\copyleft}{\reflectbox{\copyright}}

which mirrors \copyright:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{textcomp}% http://ctan.org/pkg/textcomp
\usepackage{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
\newcommand{\copyleft}{\reflectbox{\copyright}}
\begin{document}
\copyright \textcopyright \textcopyleft \copyleft
\end{document}

Answer 2

By chance I found a simple way to add the copyleft symbol using Tikz :

In the preamble :

\newcommand*\circled[1]{\tikz[baseline=(char.base)]{\node[shape=circle,draw,inner sep=1pt](char){#1};}}

In the document :

\circled{\reflectbox{c}} versus \copyright