e-mailing pix

[ME_DONOVAN@adobeforums.com]

don't know if this is the right forum for the question but can anyone tell me how do i put a photo in the body of an e-mail without adding it as an attachment?
mac 8.6 and outlook express

[jonf@adobeforums.com]

Not really the right forum. You'll probaby have to do that as html content. You can get the image into the correct format through PS, but I think getting your e-mail to do what you want is a whole other kettle of fish. Normally it's better to create links in e-mail, since there's such a wide range of things that will happen in your recipients' various email browsers, individual settings and preferences. It's difficult to assure yourself that html content will display the way you want it to.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Jonf is absolutely right. Some of us even have our email readers set to "Never Display HTML Messages", which means we only see the text anyway, without any formatting or embedded pictures, or block senders who routinely send HTML messages.

[ME_DONOVAN@adobeforums.com]

thanks but i have a friend who is applying for jobs overseas and they want pictures and text but no attachments. i have had e-mails before with that configuration but they were pc/windows not mac. so i was hopeful there was a straight forward solution.

[Paul_Hokanson@adobeforums.com]

Have your friend setup a simple portfolio page on a web server (lots of free options available these days... ) and then post a link to that page in the email.

That's very straightforward, avoids attachments and and Mac-PC issues, and will work with every email program, allowing the pictures to be viewed by anyone in the world.

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

Most people that i know just pull a JPEG into their attachments -- or even into the body of the text in Safari -- and everyone seems to be able to open them.

Just make sure that they have the .jpg suffix.

And if they are going through AOL, either stuff or zip them or send one image per email.

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

I meant "Mail" not "Safari" of course in the previous Post.
Sorry, it's been a very L_O_N_G day.……

[Neil_Keller@adobeforums.com]

I corrected it for you, Ann.

Neil

[Neil_Keller@adobeforums.com]

Another viable format for adding to an email is .gif for linework/type/solid color (not for photos).

Neil

[jonf@adobeforums.com]

I think the problem is still going to be that though the pictures are in the body of the email, they don't display that way in every configuration. If he's trying to settle this issue with a specific mail recipient they can probably work things out so it will function between them, but I don't believe there's a universal way to make his jpegs or gifs appear in every possible email configuration. Am I wrong about that?

[SPAMMERS_SHOULD_DIE_bonniejdesign@bonniejdesign.com]

<http://www.mail-archive.com/taglibs-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg06886.html>

[jonf@adobeforums.com]

Thanks, Bonniej. But again, won't this work only if the recipient is allowing html?

[Paul_Hokanson@adobeforums.com]

Posting the photos on a web server and copying the URL (pointing to the web page with those images) into the email is the only way to achieve what the original poster is after.

AFAIK, every other method being discussed will either add an attachment to the email (something the poster does not want to happen) or will be possibly handicapped by the recipent's email program/settings (HTML viewing off, etc).

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

won't this work only if the recipient is allowing html?




You're absolutely right, jonf. I, for one, wouldn't see that image.