Creating stationary templates for Mail

you could create a new email, then place/paste the stationery you created in pages or another editor in the body of text of that new email, then you could choose file>save as stationery. i think your custom stationery would then show up at the end of the list of available stationery.

hope this helps

Pascal,
basically I want to do the same thing, but it really doesn't work as I want it to.
In Pages I have a template that has a specific photo I use as a watermark (opacity 10%).
It covers the entire sheet. As these are job related templates, they provide proof of actual message from my company. As a watermark it is very unique. When i try to paste the template into mail stationary it just shows a reduced size of the watermark, with 100 % opacity.

I need it to cover the entire sheet, at 10% opacity. any ideas from your end?

Norm

hmm... do you have rich text selected in mail>preferences>composing? or plain text, don't know if that would make a difference, but worth a try.

also, how are you pasting in the body of the email? as an image or directly from pages to the email, are you using the straight paste, or are you using paste and match style from the edit menu?

finally, a word of advice, although stationery works with most recipients, it does not for all, and especially for outlook users because of a MS issue not recognized the format in which an email with stationery is sent. you may want to search these pages to find out what other users have found when sending stationery.

hope this helps

Ok, pascal I will give it a shot when I get home tonight. will let U know back.

Thanx

Norm

Hi...

couple of days ago I found this on the web. It might help you.

http://theappleblog.com/2007/10/31/how-to-create-edit-your-own-mail-stationery/

Regards

Gerhard

Gerhard

this sounds like fun.

thanx

Norman

oh well and Apple has it all... sorry I forgot this link:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/MailArticl es/Articles/stationery.html

Sounds like a complete P.I.T.A. to me. Why are templates such a pain in Apple Mail? Why does Apple Support provide minimal/no information for dealing with the details like this?

Eudora templates take about 30 seconds to make within the program and they *actually work*. And they can actually be set as the default mailer, which seems like a no-brainer feature.

I've tried repeatedly to make a simple business template in Apple Mail, a jpg header and footer with text in between. It goes together fine and looks fine initially, but it never arrives properly for anyone. There is always a long paragraph of pointless code included at the top of sent emails, followed by the text I added (which is not between the header and footer like it should be) and then the header and footer jpgs appear together at the bottom, which is completely worthless to me. ***?

I guess I could blow another 4 hours reading about how to trick it into working somehow. Nah. I'll just go back to using Eudora.