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Weirdnes in Graphics for Outlook Signatures
shmokes:
Does anyone here know what's going on here? I'm trying to make an image-based signature that automatically appears at the bottom of emails sent from Outlook. It worked fine in 2003, but 2007 is broken. Whether I use HTML code to pull an image from the web, or go through the menus and select an image from my hard drive, it does strange things. Often the images get distorted. Sometimes the signature is super small. Sometimes it's super big. I cannot figure out what's going on. Anyone?
Zero_Hour:
Pure conjecture on my part, but I would guess it is related to Outlook 2007 using XML for more things, and MS mucking up the implementation. Also, it's my understanding that Outlook used to use IE to render HTML e-mails, and now it uses Word to render HTML. That may have some impact if the rendering engines are significantly different (which they probably are). :dunno
RayB:
post examples of how you're embedding it. It's just html. Maybe you're using non standard code...
shmokes:
--- Quote from: RayB on February 15, 2008, 09:23:00 pm ---post examples of how you're embedding it. It's just html. Maybe you're using non standard code...
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Could be. My wife doesn't know HTML. Neither do I. I suggested that she probably needs to set up tables, but she said she tried and couldn't figure it out. One thing to keep in mind is that since Office 2007 ditched the Internet Explorer engine to render HTML in favor of having the Word engine render both text and HTML, the HTML capabilities of Outlook have been substantially crippled. For example, it can't handle CSS at all. Anyway, here's her code and an example of what it needs to look like. She's has managed through trial and error to get somewhat close, but she needs it to look virtually exactly like it does in the JPEG.
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<html>
<p> </p>
<p><img height="94" width="73" src="http://theretailoutsource.com/images/TRO_web1.gif" style="float: left; padding: 0px 23px 0px 0;"></p>
<p><strong style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #666666; font-size: 12px;">Brett Beveridge</strong><br>
<tro style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #666666; font-size: 11px;">President and CEO<br>
<a href="mailto:bbeveridge@theretailoutsource.com" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 11px; color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">bbeveridge@theretailoutsource.com</a><br>
5201 Blue Lagoon Drive Suite 620 Miami, Florida 33126<br>
O 305.539.3810 Ext. 8001 F 305.266.0071 (private)<br>
<a href="http://theretailoutsource.com" title="visit theretailoutsource.com" style="color: #666666; text-decoration:none ">theretailoutsource.com</a></tro>
<br>
<br>
<img height="37" width="193" src="http://theretailoutsource.com/images/TRO_web2.gif" style="float: left; padding: 6px 0px 0px 0;"></p>
</html>
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ChadTower:
That's going to get chopped up oddly on a lot of recipient mailboxes anyway. Not everyone uses Outlook to read their mail. Not everyone has the same display settings in their client. Not everyone is using the same version of Outlook. What you "fix" here could break for people using 2003. Elaborate email signatures are just asking for weirdness on the other end at least as often as they look pretty.
EDIT: why would you want a mailto link in an email signature? They're already in the email. They can hit reply.
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