Anyone had any problems getting an image into a signature in Outlook 2013? We've got a handful of people at work who have a small image in theirs that shows they're bigwigs in the Legal 500.
However, it's not working as it should. I've stuck the jpeg in and all looks fine in the signature editor, then the image gets blown up out of all proportion when the email's sent. I've recently happened on this website that goes someway to explaining what's going on.
Quote: From the site
This issue usually happens when you are using a picture other than 96dpi.
When inserting a picture, Outlook will rescale the image as if it was a 96dpi image. This means that if you have a picture of 150dpi with a height of 88px, it will be displayed as an image of 56px high;
88px/150dpi * 96dpi = 56px
It even gets worse; upon sending, Outlook will convert and compress (re-render) the images to 96dpi with the new dimensions permanently! This means that all the "detailed" picture information is lost and you'll be sending an image of 96dpi which is 56px high. This is of course a severe and very visible quality loss.
If your picture is less than 96dpi, then the opposite happens. A picture of 88px high with a dpi of 32 would then result in a 96dpi image of 264px high. So the result will be a very large image (but this time you can resize it back without the image becoming blurry).
This is a long outstanding issue/function/design choice which goes back all the way to Word 6.0 from 1993.
So, creating the sig in Outlook creates an HTML file full of Microsoft's usual gumpf and outputs two image files based on the original FOR NO FUCKING REASON I CAN SEE:
Code:
</v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:56.5pt;
height:73.5pt'>
<v:imagedata src="rsr-4_files/image001.jpg" o:title="logo"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=113 height=147
src="rsr-4_files/image002.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025"><![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>
One's big, one's small. But both aren't right. I've tried overwriting the two image00*.jpg files with a 96dpi image, tried changing the two existing ones to 96dpi and tried hosting the file somewhere else. Oh and I've changed the pixel width/height values in the code too, but Outlook overwrites them when adding the signature into an email.
I'm stuck. :C
Any ideas? |
