Title: Re: HTML mail font sizes shrink when in Outlook!
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when i cut and paste what u wrote into word..it shows it as 7
point Times New Roman.
It does look smallish.
Janice F. Jorgensen
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 9:31
AM
Subject: 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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