inserting table with graphic in to signature

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inserting table with graphic in to signature

switching form pc to mac...

I am trying to put a 1 row two column table, with the first cell having a .gif of my business card and the second column having the text of the business card into my signature (very easy to do in windows outlook 07). I am using apple mail.

It appears not to be possible to paste a table into the signature, and there is no way within the signature dialog to insert a table, right?

I also do not see how to insert a properly sized .gif (or any graphic) into the signature. There is no insert in the signature dialog to insert a graphic. So, you have to copy and paste. If I insert the graphic in Pages and copy from Pages, it fails with a ?. If I drag and drop the graphic from Finder, it looks sized ok in the signature dialog, but when you create a new email, the graphic is the full size of the page.

If I ever do get the graphic to insert properly sized, how do I control the graphic and text positioning without the ability to have a table in the signature?

Thanks
Bob

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5), Late 08 MacBook Pro 2.53GHz,4GB Ram, OS X (10.5.5), iPhone 3G (2.2), Parallels 4

Posted on Dec 5, 2008 3:00 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Dec 10, 2008 12:54 PM in response to BobInIndy1

No, I'm not saying that at all. You can have text that is then followed by a URL link to the image you want included. Or you can use a partial signature with the text, then attach the image immediately below the text part. The latter won't work here on the forums, but the first one will.

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Answer 2

Kappy

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Dec 5, 2008 3:17 PM in response to BobInIndy1

First, be sure you are composing messages using Rich Text (Composing item in Mail preferencs.) Second, create your .gif image that contains what you want for your signature. Size the image accordingly. The display resolution is around 112 pixels/inch. If you want a signature that's about the size of a business card then it should be 392 x 224 pixels. When pasted into a message it will appear in the message at its full size - 3.5 x 2 inches.

What you might prefer is to create a simple jpeg image and store it on an available FTP server on which you have an account. Rather than embedding the image in your messages you would simply include the HTML code needed to fetch and display the image inline. This saves a bit on the amount of data sent with an email message since there are no embedded images. This is how most of us do it.

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Answer 3

BobInIndy1 Author

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Dec 10, 2008 12:47 PM in response to Kappy

My signature (under windows anyway) is text and image, such as..
Sincerely,
Bob
(image of business card)

Are you saying:
1) apples pages cannot mix text and image in a signature, and therefore
2) the only way to accomplish this is to combine the text and image into one appropriately sized image?

Thanks
bob

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