Text size in Entourage HTML email

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Neal Reid

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear last time I asked this...

When I create a Word 2004 document and select Times New Roman 18,
I get a large font on the screen - about 18 pt in fact...

When I create a new HTML e-mail in Entourage 2004 and set the font
to Times New Roman 18, I get a font that displays on the screen
the same size as Times New Roman 12 in Word.

The person receiving my mail sees 18 pt.

Why is there a discrepancy between what I see in one Office 2994
app and another given I've requested the same thing?
 
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Neal Reid

Hal said:
Is the magnification level in Word set to a value greater than 100%?
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No. Word is working as expected. If Entourage had a mag. level,
I'd suspect it was set small - but AFAIK it doesn't have one
 
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Allen Watson

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear last time I asked this...

When I create a Word 2004 document and select Times New Roman 18,
I get a large font on the screen - about 18 pt in fact...

When I create a new HTML e-mail in Entourage 2004 and set the font
to Times New Roman 18, I get a font that displays on the screen
the same size as Times New Roman 12 in Word.

The person receiving my mail sees 18 pt.

Why is there a discrepancy between what I see in one Office 2994
app and another given I've requested the same thing?
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I think Word is set to display stuff so it looks like it would in Windows
Word, while Entourage is using the Safari engine and so is rendering it as a
Mac browser would.

It has to do with the way that monitors connected to Windows systems display
images. Windows displays the screen picture at 96 dpi, while the Mac
displays the screen picture at 72 dpi. Because of this, messages that look
normally sized on the Windows computer will be small on the Macintosh. On
the other hand, messages that look normally-sized on the Macintosh are
magnified when they are shown on Windows displays.
 
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Neal Reid

Allen Watson said:
It has to do with the way that monitors connected to Windows systems display
images. Windows displays the screen picture at 96 dpi, while the Mac
displays the screen picture at 72 dpi.
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Could be true - but hard to believe. I always set eery app that
allows me to to display at 96 dpi. I don't believe my version of
Safari allows that.

If your argument were true, I'd not have WYSIWYG behaviour in
Safari - but I do. Humm
 
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Chris Ridd

Could be true - but hard to believe. I always set eery app that allows
me to to display at 96 dpi. I don't believe my version of Safari allows
that.

If your argument were true, I'd not have WYSIWYG behaviour in Safari -
but I do. Humm
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I think Safari's a red herring, as Entourage still uses the HTML engine
developed for IE on the Mac (called Tasman) and not this new-fangled
WebKit stuff.

Cheers,

Chris
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

I think Safari's a red herring, as Entourage still uses the HTML engine
developed for IE on the Mac (called Tasman) and not this new-fangled
WebKit stuff.

Cheers,

Chris
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The Tasman engine is only used for complex HTML messages (where the user has
selected the preference to display complex HTML content). Normal email
messages are rendered using much simpler font rendering routines built into
entourage and/or the OS.

However, the old 'rule' about 72dpi vs 96di isn't really valid any more - I
doubt that many screens now offer either resolution in actual fact. It is
more complicated by the fact that Entourage specified its HTML font size in
pixels rather than points (or picas) - this was an attempt to improve the
situation going back & forth between windows & entourage (which it did, to a
point). However, there are now so many options between screen sizes,
resolutions, font size specifiers and rendering engines that it's pretty
well impossible to guarantee that it will work in all circumst5ances -
remember that HTML was always a MARKUP language, not a LAYOUT language. You
can be (reasonably) sure of the _content_ transferring fairly smoothly, and
usually the format as well, but not the layout. For that (if it's important)
you should use PDF.
 
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