Preview Send Image as Email

[JosephAvellino]

I have Leopard on a Macbook Pro.

I use Entourage. (Do not like Apple's email, coming off of 15 years on
IBM and using Outlook so ...).

I receive an email with a JPG attached, for example. I open the
attachment/image. Preview.app launches and shows the image. I choose
to send the image. I go to File, Mail Image in Preview. Apple's Mail
launches and a new email is opened with the image as an attachment. I
have searched high and low to try to find where I can change the email
app associated with Preview to Entourage but cannot figure this out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Diane Ross]

I receive an email with a JPG attached, for example. I open the
attachment/image. Preview.app launches and shows the image. I choose
to send the image. I go to File, Mail Image in Preview. Apple's Mail
launches and a new email is opened with the image as an attachment. I
have searched high and low to try to find where I can change the email
app associated with Preview to Entourage but cannot figure this out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I just checked and Preview uses Mail for me too. I was thinking it was the
default email setting not being set to Entourage that was the problem, but
it seems Preview doesn't honor that setting. This is an Apple bug.

I usually drag the image from the attachment pane to the desktop. Next you
can drag into an Entourage message or drag to the Entourage icon in the
Dock. This will automatically open a new Entourage message with the image
attached.

It's possible you could automate this further with an Automator workflow.

 

[Ed Kimball]

Once Apple Mail is running, you can go into its preferences to change the
default mail program.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25566
(You can also find this information by running Mac Help from the Help menu
in the Finder.)

 

[Diane Ross]

That's not helping. Preview is not honoring the default preference. At
least, it's not in Leopard.

 

[Michel Bintener]

That's not helping. Preview is not honoring the default preference. At
least, it's not in Leopard.

And since the option was not available in any OS prior to Leopard,
that's what matters! ;-)

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

 

[JosephAvellino]

And since the option was not available in any OS prior to Leopard,
that's what matters! ;-)

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

It seems that Preview is the only app I can find where you cannot
control which email app to use. For the moment, I have changed my
preference for JPG extensions to be opened with iPhoto and have
downloaded Acrobat for PDF as I can choose which email app to use for
these.

Any idea on how to ping Apple with a request for Preview? Doesn't seem
like you can leave feedback for that application.

Thanks for the help, All.

 

[JosephAvellino]

 

[Michel Bintener]

It seems that Preview is the only app I can find where you cannot
control which email app to use. For the moment, I have changed my
preference for JPG extensions to be opened with iPhoto and have
downloaded Acrobat for PDF as I can choose which email app to use for
these.

Any idea on how to ping Apple with a request for Preview? Doesn't seem
like you can leave feedback for that application.

Thanks for the help, All.

In that case, just send feedback on Mac OS X in general. Try the
following link:

<http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html>

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

 

[Ed Kimball]

Sorry, I didn't realize that. I just bought Leopard yesterday and haven't
installed it yet.

I did learn something interesting, however. If you buy the Leopard Family
Pack at an Apple store, you can get the educational discount (if you're
entitled to it). You can't get the discount on Apple's web site.