I'm in the process of migrating from MS Entourage to Mail. For a long time I've been placing screenshots in context within my text and it's worked well in Entourage for all receivers. Yet now in Mail my recipients tell me the graphics are no longer in place, yet they look fine when I'm sending. I've tried by gifs and tiffs; neither works.
Mac OS 10.4.11, Mail 2.1.3 (753.1). What am I missing?
I'm in the process of migrating from MS Entourage to Mail. For a long time I've been placing screenshots in context within my text and it's worked well in Entourage for all receivers. Yet now in Mail my recipients tell me the graphics are no longer in place, yet they look fine when I'm sending. I've tried by gifs and tiffs; neither works.
Mac OS 10.4.11, Mail 2.1.3 (753.1). What am I missing?
Kind regards,
I don't think you're missing anything. I had the same problem when I switched to Mac. I asked all around and the answer appears to be that there is no standard way of formatting images within text in an email. Microsoft products do it their way (which I believe makes your email into an HTML page) and most email applications have been built to be compliant with the Microsoft way.
Apple's Mail.app formats email and images its own way. The end result is, if the reader of your email is on a Mac they see the text and images formatted correctly, but anyone that reads the email on a Microsoft email client sees the images as attachments at the end of the email. (I'm not sure what the Mail.app composed email would look like when reading it with gmail -- would be interesting to try that).
Personally, I think this is a mis-step by Apple. I would very much like the option to format an email as HTML or as RTF when composing a new email in Mail.app for exactly your purposes. Sadly Mail.app does not give you these options like most other email clients do.
Does anyone else have any ideas about this issue? If you have a solution, please let us know!
no experience with this, but are you aware that there's a box on the 'attach file' box that says: send windows friendly attachments? you might try that, i.e., using the attach file command and clicking that box rather than dragging content into a message window...
Thanks for the suggestion mkolesa, but while that option ensures attached files will be viewable by Windows users, it doesn't do anything to solve the text/photos formatting issue.
The problem is if I write an email like this:
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"Hi, check out this photo of my dog:
[photo_of_dog]
And here's a photo of my cat:
[photo_of_cat]
And here's my car:
[photo_of_car]
See you later!"
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The email will look like this to Outlook users,
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"Hi, check out this photo of my dog:
And here's a photo of my cat:
And here's my car:
See you later!
[photo_of_dog]
[photo_of_cat]
[photo_of_car]"
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i'll use iphoto, select a couple photos, hit the 'email' button and when the email doc opens will add whatever text i want wit no probs... i would just make sure i'm using a 'return' a couple times both before and after the photo:
"Hi, check out this photo of my dog:<return>
<return>
[photo_of_dog]<return>
<return>
And here's a photo of my cat:<return>
<return>
[photo_of_cat]<return>
<return>
I send screenshots explaining thing decked (like your example) all the time, no issues.
Are the people reading the email also using a Mac? If so, there's no issue.
If the people reading the email is on Windows, my experience is the formatting is incorrect.
Although I have not tested it in a while -- is it possible that this problem was fixed in a software update? I will try it again later when I'm at home.
Are the people reading the email also using a Mac? If so, there's no issue.
If the people reading the email is on Windows, my experience is the formatting is incorrect.
Although I have not tested it in a while -- is it possible that this problem was fixed in a software update? I will try it again later when I'm at home.
I'm the original poster of this issue. While my correspondent is indeed on a Mac not Windows, I've now discovered he's using Thunderbird as his eMail client. Resolution of this issue may require him switching eMail clients. Or push me back to using MS Entourage.
I'm the original poster of this issue. While my correspondent is indeed on a Mac not Windows, I've now discovered he's using Thunderbird as his eMail client.
DING DING DING DING DING!
Yeah, Thunderbird ... nice, but not quite baked yet even after all these years ...
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