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Running Lion, how do you create new stationery templates for Mail? There are several articles in Google for Snow Leopard, et al, but nothing for Lion. Same in this Forum - everything regarding stationery seems to be 2-3 years old???
Also, where do the JPG's for the current stationery reside??
Thanks.
Mark
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), ... and Parallels 6 with XP
Actually, following your instructions, nothing happened?? :>) I did "File/New Message", selected "Format" from the top drop-down menu; selected both "Show Colors" and "Show Fonts"; clicked on the last rectangle image above the list of fonts; selected a color, and nothing changed. There must be a step missing??
Also, the "Add whatever art you want" seems to need an additional step??
Thanks for the reply.
Okay, try this:
Same steps, but before you pick a color double-click on the blank body of the email.
click on body of email
click that litle thing that looks like a peice of paper with the folded edge
click a color
forget the double-click part
OK, I've got the color in the background...how do I "add whatever other art I want"? Thanks again!
That part I'm not as sure about... I've added some art - dragging jpgs. into position, but now that I'm on Mountain Lion it isn't working as well. I'll let you know if I figure it out.
Thanks, Michael. I'm still not having any luck either!
Michael Sullivan2 - Here's the answer! While about two years old, if you stay with the tutorials (5), you will succeed.
I just ran across another article on this that i found extremely useful to create a custom stationary .. not for a novice but great for someone with a bit of knowledge on HTML .. but still very step-by-step oriented
http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-create-edit-your-own-mail-stationery/
It walks through the set of files/directories/resources that make up the "stationary" templates
And don't worry you don't need to be a programmer .. just some quick simple edits in a text editor ..
Hey Mark, I spent an hour today on the phone with a really smart Apple Genius and we couldn't figure out the stationery issue you were working on previously. In your message on Sep 11 you said "here's the answer" but didn't mention what it was. The next person Courdin, offered a link to something. Was that the solution? Did you ever find the solution? I've been working on this off and on for years. The Apple Genius is working on this too. Look forward to hearing what you've learned.
Hi rbkj - I finally gave up on this project. I was able to duplicate the files on one of the templates that come with Mail, then I began to modify each with my own background, images, etc. I was able to get it to appear ONCE, and after that, nothing. The files seem so convoluted that I came to the conclusion they would rather sell new template packages than allow users to figure out how to create our own!!!! :>)
I did it, as you write.
I also put a small picture, 320X200 px, about 90 kb, and when I am asking to mail it, I have a message, "Missing plug-in"...
Any idea..?
At my path, there is NO custom folder... and I have create a new stationery..!
😕
http://techtips.salon.com/make-stationery-mac-mail-501.html
This article outlines what you need to do in order to create a new stationary.
Hej !
- I hope someone still reads these messages, cause I also am trying to do own staniory, but nothing works. And those links what are here give just "410"
I have been using Dreamweaver and TextWranger but nothing helps ;-(
-lm-
Creating New Stationery Templates
