Re: Font rendering in emailed newsletter

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From: Mary Sauer (gsauer_at_mycolumbus.rr.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:01:32 -0400

You might want to take this question to
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.publisher.webdesign

Keep in mind most folks have their email accounts configured so HTML is not enabled.
Have you thought about PDF? 

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Mary Sauer MS MVP
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"Gatto Friulano" <GattoFriulano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:92332220-FAA5-4BF2-A1CD-EFD8A7CE9AE2@microsoft.com...
>I understand this, but the publication was an html publication to start with
> and what I compared was the HTML rendering in Explorer versus the rendering
> in Publisher/Outlook.
>
> The most puzzling thing, however, was (as noted in original posting in more
> detail) that some text boxes are rendered correctly and some are not. Some
> initially are rendered correctly and later are not.
>
> This suggests that it is not the fact that the newsletter is in HTML that is
> the problem.
>
>
>
> "Mary Sauer" wrote:
>
>> Saving a print publication to HTML will change the look. Read the help files on 
>> web
>> pages.
>>
>> -- 
>> Mary Sauer MS MVP
>> http://office.microsoft.com/
>> http://www.msauer.mvps.org/
>> news://msnews.microsoft.com
>> "Gatto Friulano" <GattoFriulano@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:36C8D7DE-6EDD-41D1-9E59-2D783D703931@microsoft.com...
>> >I have prepared a newsletter using Publisher's templates and it looks great
>> > in html (e.g. in Explorer), but when I email it as message body (or view it
>> > in the email preview) fonts are not rendered in the same way and the quality
>> > is much worse (the font is the same, but it looks as if it has a lower
>> > resolution, it does not have the same smooht look). Do you know what may be
>> > the cause and how I can address the problem?
>> >
>> > (Note that I do not want to send the newsletter as an attachment - it has to
>> > be the email body),
>> >
>> > Here is some additional information:
>> > - I am using Publisher 2003 and Outlook 2003 (fully updated)
>> > - The font used is verdana (using the online verdana font scheme) and
>> > character spacing is left as default. Font size is 9-12. I tried to change
>> > it, but there is no improvement.
>> > - I left the basic formatting pretty much the same as in the template,
>> > although I have moved around and resized boxes
>> > - Initially emailing the
>> > - In the email version, most of the text looks bad, but not all. Some
>> > windows look ok. To try to replicate that, I used the same formatting for
>> > some of the boxes with low quality fonts, but it does not seem to have any
>> > effect.
>> > - If I send the original template (using the same Verdana font scheme) the
>> > newsletter looks fine.
>>
>>
>>

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