On 3/20/03 5:11 AM, "Peter C.S. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thus spake Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 3/19/2003 4:14 PM: >> Click the "A" button [or choose] in Edit menu (Increase Font Size). > > This is a great feature that I use all the time, since that OTHER email > program MS makes, whose name I shall not utter, virtually FORCES people to > send (badly) formatted HTML even when they want to send plain text. Outlook does not force people to send in any particular format, and its default format is not in fact HTML but its own proprietary RTF (rich text format). If they use that default, it shows up in Entourage as plain text, not as HTML, dragging that silly winmail.dat attachment with it unless it's been stripped out by Exchange Server (as it should be). So if you're getting it as HTML, they've specifically chosen to send it as HTML., unforced by anyone. They've probably been told by other Windows users, who are not Outlook users, such as OE Windows users, that formatted mail will not arrive formatted unless they send HTML. And the font size will look the same wrong size to us on the Mac if they've sent it from Eudora Windows or any other Windows email program. They simply have a different screen resolution size there, so what looks right to them is tiny for us, and what looks right for us looks huge to them. Unless they're sending complex HTML, in which case we see it through Internet Explorer's rendering engine, and this see everything the same size as Windows users do. (This is only the case with Entourage and OE Mac - some other Mac email clients will see it small, such as Apple's Mail does.) > > My question to the group is: Why is this command under the "Edit" menu > instead of the "View" menu? After all, you're not editing anything, just > changing the way you view it. If the sender has specified a certain font size, as well as font color, font, etc. then changing that font size is a very mild form of editing, I guess. > > A trivial matter, assuredly, but I'm curious. > -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
