Mail Signature: image size keeps changing to fit window

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Mail Signature: image size keeps changing to fit window

When adding a logo image to a signature in mail, the image is not remaining the same size, it changes in size semingly to fit the width of the window that the email happens to be in. Mostly the image is showing larger than the window itself. We are having this problem on imac (snow leopard) and brand new macbook pro (mountain lion). I have tried using PNG and JPEG files but both have the same problem. Older signatures (2 years old) show the image correctly keeping it the same size. Any advice muchly appreciated : )

Mail-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 20, 2013 3:55 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 21, 2017 1:30 PM in response to edmarriott

My problem as well. Have tried various file formats (jpg, png, tiff), resized and saved in Preview, even tried to capture a small version of the picture using Grab. All of them revert to being twice as big as I want.

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yannhaur

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Mar 8, 2017 4:46 AM in response to four acorns

I found a solution here that seems to work:

http://matt.coneybeare.me/how-to-make-an-html-signature-in-apple-mail-for-sierra -os-x-10-dot-12/

Did not try it myself because I found it a bit complicated and, not wanting to go through the trouble, I just saved the logo image in a smaller size and left it blurry in my signature.

Anyway, hope it helps.

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Mar 27, 2017 6:30 AM in response to reece t

I have found that setting the width of the table that I use to code my html signature in helps. So in short: Use tables for your layout and use a single table cell for your image (with the width set on the table and/or cell itself).

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Mar 23, 2013 6:31 AM in response to reece t

same issue,

but I believe that is connected to the resolution.

Appereantly Mail accept ony low resolution logo (72dpi) and maintains that size. If you paste a higher resolution (300) becase you are interested in higher qualitiy prints, that's gets much larger, because mail is converting to 72?

Anyone explored this issue further??

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reece t Author

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Mar 26, 2013 4:25 AM in response to Loris Biaggio

I worked it out in the end - I had 2 things too big in my image settings; the canvas size (which was 14cm long!) and he DPI (which was 300dpi) I have since changed to approx 8cm long and 100DPI and it now displays the logo in the signature without increasing the size of it to fit the size of the window. My only issue now is trying to get the image to still show in the reply thread, so that when you look down the email conversation you can see the logo in each of the previous email signatures. This one is stumping me!

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Answer 6

Jan 29, 2017 9:16 AM in response to reece t

I have this problem, too. But the suggested fix doesnt work- my image is a png at 72 dpi and it is still getting expanded by Mail....

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Answer 7

Feb 24, 2017 10:11 AM in response to reece t

I am having the same problem and have tried the same attempts for a solution without luck. Any other solutions?

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Answer 8

Jul 18, 2017 5:06 PM in response to yannhaur

I looked at the link you posted and way too complicated for me too. I did try shrinking my logo signature but it still remained the same size, uug!

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