Re: HTML mail font sizes shrink when in Outlook!

[Stephen Rayment]

Title: Re: HTML mail font sizes shrink when in Outlook!

I am sending this HTML message in 12 point Times New Roman.
I know Diane Ross said it was teeny tiny when she got it.
Does anybody else see it teeny tiny.
Any ideas what’s going on?
sgr

> Does anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this problem?
> Having my e-mail text shrink to teeny tiny (7pt) on a Windows machine gives
> them all yet one more reason to mock my funny little Macintosh :-(
> sgr
>
>
>> From: Joel Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 08:49:59 -0600
>> To: sgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: RE: HTML mail have different font seize in Outlook!
>>
>> Entourage uses a different style of HTML code than Outlook uses; font sizes
>> in Entourage are in the format 'font-size:12.0px' while Outlook font sizes
>> are in the format 'FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2'.  Other Windows
>> programs use 'font size=12pt'.  The different format in Entourage often
>> results on Windows programs correctly displaying the font and at almost the
>> proper size, but characters are slightly malformed.
>>
>>
>>> From: sgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Organization: http://groups.google.com
>>> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
>>> Date: 1 Nov 2004 10:53:36 -0800
>>> Subject: Re: HTML mail have different font seize in Outlook!
>>>
>>> I have exactly the same problem, particularly the sizes getting
>>> smaller in replies!
>>> The Entourage MVP site says (and I quote) ...
>>> "It has to do with the way that monitors connected to Windows systems
>>> display images. Windows displays the screen picture at 96 dpi, while
>>> the Mac displays the screen picture at 72 dpi. Because of this,
>>> messages that look normally sized on the Windows computer will be
>>> small on the Macintosh. On the other hand, messages that look
>>> normally-sized on the Macintosh are magnified when they are shown on
>>> Windows displays"
>>> I'm not so sure.
>>> Any other opinions would be valued.
>>> sgr
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jens Lorenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>> news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> When I send HTML mails from Entourage to some colleagues via our company
>>>> Exchange Server, the font seize is reduced in some Outlook clients.
>>>>
>>>> I usually use Arial 12, but also tried other fonts (e.g. Vernada). In some
>>>> Outlook clients the font size appears as seize 9 or smaller instead of 12.
>>>> When I check the source code it seems the same as in clients where the font
>>>> size is being displayed correctly - except that the font size does get
>>>> changed (reduced) when replying.
>>>>
>>>> As mentioned, it's only in some Outlook clients. I tried it with several
>>>> colleagues and my own Outlook installation at a customer site (where I have
>>>> a Windows box).
>>>> On some clients it shows up OK on some the smaller font sizes are being
>>>> displayed.
>>>>
>>>> And the really strange thing is that the fonts of original text get smaller
>>>> when I have a conversation, that is a reduction in font size of the quoted
>>>> text in nearly every reply to one of my replies.
>>>>
>>>> As soon as someone with an Outlook client that's "affected" opens the mail,
>>>> the font seize gets changed permanently (so I can see it in the replies).
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any idea what's happening here?
>>>>
>>>> I thought it might be the character set at first. But I changed this in
>>>> Entourage (from automatic to ISO) and on two of the Outlook clients, but no
>>>> change...
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jens

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