Composing Emails in Outlook 2003

[Fburger]

I create a newsletter that is composed in Publisher, converted into a jpg
which I then insert as a picture into the body of my email. This has worked
fine for a long time but suddenly the graphic no longer appears normal size
after insertion: it is shrunken. I found that by clicking on the "resize"
button, it expands the graphic, but too much plus it is stretched out
disproportionately on the horizontal plane and looks very distorted. I try
resizing it using Format Picture, but whatever dimensions I enter and apply
simply do not stick and it always reverts back to the distorted dimensions.
I have tried all kinds of ways of pasting it but nothing works.

Any suggestions?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Are you working with custom DPI settings on your computer?
If you use Outlook as the email editor instead of Word, does it show up
correctly then?

 

[Fburger]

I just realized what DPI probably is: dots per inch.

No, I wouldn't know how to change those settings. I can't even remember
where I saw them, but I know I saw something that indicated I could chose
between Web resolution at 96 DPI and some other resolution at 200 DPI. It
didn't matter which I chose, the problem remained.

I am wondering if perhaps the file is just too large?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

No, Word as the e-mail editor often acts up like that but usually that goes
with the computer's DPI settings and configured screen size in Word which is
why I asked.
The default is 96 DPI. To find out your current DPI settings see;
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/67

Web settings for Word can be found here;
Tools-> Options...-> tab General-> button Web Options...-> tab Pictures
Default settings are 800x600 and 96 DPI.

 

[Fburger]

I have no idea what DPI is.

The short answer is no. The long answer is: I can't get the photographs to
display the way I want them when composing in Outlook or in Word because they
will not float them. I am editing in Publisher because it allows me to float
my pix and place them exactly where I want them at the angles I want. I use
text boxes for everything else and then copy and paste the whole thing into
Paint, save that as a jpg and then go to Outlook and insert picture.

It usually works but lately it has been finicky and I keep having to fine
tune the way I do it. E.g., when I first had the distortion problem a couple
of months ago, it worked just to hit the "resize" button, which would make
the image expand about twice its size and then I could resize it with the
horizontal black anchor-type things on the side (sorry, it's really late and
I can't remember this terminology I never use anymore). But now that tactic
doesn't work any more. I figure something is getting reset, but I'm not
doing it and can't find any settings that seem to apply.

 

[Fburger]

I see what you mean -- this is really brilliant if it works, which I suspect
it will.

I followed your link and just tried to reset it according to your
instructions there, but I cannot reset this without supevisor privileges,
stupidly enough. Working at a small non-profit with equally small budget
means they're overly protective of the computers, so I will have to get the
IT guy in tomorrow to do it for me.

Thanks!