Font rendering in emailed newsletter

[Gatto Friulano]

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.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Saving a print publication to HTML will change the look. Read the help files on web
pages.

 

[Mary Sauer]

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?

 

[Gatto Friulano]

The newsgroup seems to be addressing different issues - the web-designing
part of it works fine with me. It is the translation that Publisher does into
email that seems to create a problem. It should not be an Outlook problem
either because the degradation appears in the email preview (which seems to
rely on Explorer, not Outlook).

PDF - I will definitely have a PDF version, but I want to be able to send a
readable newsletter, so that people do not have to open an attachment. And
the people receiving the newsletter do have HTML enabled (in the worse case
they get text, so they can still read it)

 

[Gatto Friulano]

The newsgroup seems to be addressing different issues - the web-designing
part of it works fine with me. It is the translation that Publisher does into
email that seems to create a problem. It should not be an Outlook problem
either because the degradation appears in the email preview (which seems to
rely on Explorer, not Outlook).

PDF - I will definitely have a PDF version, but I want to be able to send a
readable newsletter, so that people do not have to open an attachment. And
the people receiving the newsletter do have HTML enabled (in the worse case
they get text, so they can still read it)

 

[DavidF]

In your original post you said that you moved some text boxes around and
that the original template looked fine. Perhaps check to see if the text
boxes that are looking bad are overlapping other elements in your news
letter. If they are they would be converted to a GIF image and thus the text
would not look as good...at least this is true when building a website with
Publisher. Using the Snap To function is a handy way of avoiding
overlapping. HTH

DavidF

 

[Gatto Friulano]

DavidF,

yes you are absolutely right - this was the problem and thank you so much
for pointing it out!

 

[Travis]

I have the same problem, I think. But where is the "Snap To" function? I have
Office 2000 and I'm using Word.

 

[Ed Bennett]

While in a state of ecstasy after repairing his laptop, Ed sees a

I have the same problem, I think. But where is the "Snap To"
function? I have Office 2000 and I'm using Word.

In Publisher, the Snap function is on the Arrange menu.

I'm not sure about Word. Try a Word group