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Rosco
1st October 2007, 07:59 PM
I use MS Outlook for my emails and would like to create a flash signature for my work emails. I've created one which doesn't look too bad, though I'd like to include my business logo ... so far without success :(.

If I send it to myself it comes in looking fine, but if I send it to the other box on my network as a test, it loses its format and arrives in very ordinary Courier Font. The other box is only using MS Outlook Express ... is this the issue?

And any tips on creating a flash one like those I receive from many other ppls?? But I don't want to use Plaxo as it gives me the irrits .... :mad:

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

5teve
2nd October 2007, 03:54 PM
im not 100% on this but the other machine maybe set to recieve in plain text only, thats why there is a plain text sig and normal sig.. i dont think there is anything you can do to include it going in plain text, as by definition... its plain!

Thanks

Steve

tombraider
2nd October 2007, 04:00 PM
Do it as a Gif and embed the gif in the signature

Rosco
2nd October 2007, 04:15 PM
Do it as a Gif and embed the gif in the signature


Yep ... aahhh :oops2:

Are you saying create it elsewhere and save as a gif file ??:unsure::unsure:

Cheers

dmdigital
2nd October 2007, 04:16 PM
Its all to do with how the mail application handles the MIME encoding and decoding of the message. Also the mail gateway(s) can strip or record some portions of the message if it is of a non-generic format. This type of thing will work well if everyone is using the same mail application with the same settings for message display, the same fonts loaded, on the same mail server, ... etc.

In general there is no guarantee that it will work between different applications, like you found with Outlook and Outlook Express. If you use an embedded GIF then one person will see it as an attachment and another may see it as the embedded graphic.

Personally I hate fancy graphical/colourful signature blocks

loanrangie
5th October 2007, 04:00 PM
Its all to do with how the mail application handles the MIME encoding and decoding of the message. Also the mail gateway(s) can strip or record some portions of the message if it is of a non-generic format. This type of thing will work well if everyone is using the same mail application with the same settings for message display, the same fonts loaded, on the same mail server, ... etc.

In general there is no guarantee that it will work between different applications, like you found with Outlook and Outlook Express. If you use an embedded GIF then one person will see it as an attachment and another may see it as the embedded graphic.

Personally I hate fancy graphical/colourful signature blocks

Says he with the panoramic vista in his sig line :D