[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
[Author Index (this month)][Thread Index (this month)][Top of Archive]

Re: Sending image-mapped graphics in Outlook

Subject: Re: Sending image-mapped graphics in Outlook
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:41:34 -0400


Dustin,

Here's one way:

First, create an html page (in Dreamweaver, for example) that does everything you want it to do when viewed in a browser.

Then use a bulk email program that handles html email to send a copy of the page to yourself.

Open it in Outlook. The image map should work.

Now you should be able to save that message as an Outlook template. At the very least, you can add text or other html elements, delete the forwarding header, etc., and forward it to others.

The Outlook html editor has some strange quirks (it won't let you type an en dash or em dash entity for example), and the html code it produces is extraordinarily ugly if anyone chooses to view source on your messages. So I prefer using the bulk mailer instead. But YMMV.

Dick

Swanson, Dustin wrote:

My boss has recently put me in charge of creating our company's first HTML-formatted e-mail header for the various corporate-wide e-mails that are sent out. His motivation for this came from an e-mail he received that contained what appeared to be an image-mapped graphic as the header. I've dissected this graphic and discovered that the image is regular JPEG format, and then when it is pulled into Outlook, it appears to paste layer on top of the graphic that acts as the image-mapped area.
I have a lot of experience with Web design, which is one reason I got this project, but I have never had to create an image for e-mail. I've created the image I would like to use in Photoshop 7, but cannot figure out how to save it or export it so it appears with the image-mapped links. Whenever I save it as an image, it loses the linked areas, and whenever I save it as an HTML document, it only appears as an attachment in the email.
So with that brief (and potentially confusing) background, here's my question: How do you put an image-mapped graphic in an HTML-formatted e-mail in Outlook (Win 2000) so the graphic appears in the body of the e-mail and all of the links function?
Please send any responses directly to me at dustin_swanson -at- jeffersonwells -dot- com -dot- I have the digest version, and I've never been very patient. :) Thanks!





^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Buy ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 6.0, the most powerful SINGLE SOURCE HELP
AUTHORING TOOL for MS Word. SAVE $100 on the full version and $50 on the
upgrade. Offer ends 10/31/2002 (code: DTH102250).
http://www.componentone.com/d2hlist1002

All-new RoboHelp X3 is now shipping! Get single sourcing, print-quality
documentation, conditional text and much more, in the most monumental
release ever. Save $100! Order online at http://www.ehelp.com/techwr-l

---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as:
archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.


References:
Sending image-mapped graphics in Outlook: From: Swanson, Dustin

Previous by Author: Re: Resume citation for ex-companies
Next by Author: Re: Funny problem: FM/PDF color setting
Previous by Thread: Sending image-mapped graphics in Outlook
Next by Thread: Anyone Using the Yellow Pages to Advertise?

[Top of Archive] | [Author Index (this month)] | [Thread Index (this month)]

What this post helpful? Share it with friends and colleagues:

Sponsored Ads