How To Prevent Size Of Fonts In E-Mail From Being Affected By Browser

Hello,

I use OE 6 SP2 on XP Pro SP2. My browser is IE 7.

When composing Mail (and News), my font is Arial 12. I find that anything
smaller is somewhat difficult to read *on my monitor*.

When I print my e-mails, I choose "Size - Smallest" on my browser to keep
the print as small as possible *on paper*.

On occasion, my browser is inadvertently at "Size - Largest", thus causing
the font in my e-mail to become relatively huge when printed.

My concern is that, when a recipient of my e-mail prints it, if his/her
browser is set at "Size - Largest", the printed font will be so large as to
look unprofessional.

Is there any way that I can enable my e-mail client so that I can continue
to use Arial 12 when composing, but the font, when printed by a recipient,
will not be larger than "Size - Medium at most?

Thank you.

Martin

 

In OE - Tools/Options/Read/Fonts : set to Windows ISO, click 'set as
default'.

 

Martin

1
Having problems seeing the connection between your Browser (IE7) settings
and printing emails from "OE"
AFAIK the two are completely independent of one another.

2
Gotta ask, why print the emails.
Read them on screen and save a forest.

3
The settings in your email client will not affect the font size of your
recipients email client unless you send emails in rich text or HTML format.
Even then the size it prints out is under 'their' control not yours.

4
If you emails need to have a 'profesional' appearance then compose them in a
word processor and save them as a pdf and attach them to an email.
That way you have total control over how they appear to the recipient.


Best
Paul.

 

Good morning to you in the U.K.!

I don't have "Windows ISO" as an option.

This is what I currently have:
Font Setting: Western European
Proportional Font: Tahoma
Fixed-Width Font: Courier New
Font Size: Larger
Encoding: [I have a choice of Latin 9 (ISO), US - ASCII, Western European
(ISO), and Western European (Windows)].

Which of the above, if any, is the equivalent of Windows ISO?

Further, will the new setting prevent those, who receive my e-mailed
replies, from printing them with relatively large fonts, even if their
browser is at Size - Largest?
(I want them to print my replies with small or smallest font.)

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I look forward to your reply to this
post.

Martin

: In OE - Tools/Options/Read/Fonts : set to Windows ISO, click 'set as
: default'.
:
: Martin wrote:
: > Hello,
: >
: > I use OE 6 SP2 on XP Pro SP2. My browser is IE 7.
: >
: > When composing Mail (and News), my font is Arial 12. I find that
: > anything smaller is somewhat difficult to read *on my monitor*.
: >
: > When I print my e-mails, I choose "Size - Smallest" on my browser to
: > keep the print as small as possible *on paper*.
: >
: > On occasion, my browser is inadvertently at "Size - Largest", thus
: > causing the font in my e-mail to become relatively huge when printed.
: >
: > My concern is that, when a recipient of my e-mail prints it, if
: > his/her browser is set at "Size - Largest", the printed font will be
: > so large as to look unprofessional.
: >
: > Is there any way that I can enable my e-mail client so that I can
: > continue to use Arial 12 when composing, but the font, when printed
: > by a recipient, will not be larger than "Size - Medium at most?
: >
: > Thank you.
: >
: > Martin
:
:

 

That should be a lesson to you that everyone is very very different from
each other -- it should also be a lesson that you should not assume that
your behaviors or choices are going to be very very different, from say,
mine.

Good for you (except for the 'browser' part). What does that have to do
with some other recipient? I virtually never ever ever ever print an
email as an email. Even if I were to print something which I received in
an email, I would want to completely reformat it to my own taste, not the
tastes of the person who happened to have sent it to me.

Don't concern yourself about such thoughts. I am highly doubtful that any
recipient is going to be asking you what to do about printing your emails.

There are ways to send things to recipients so that you have control of
the result of how it would be printed; but in the context of what you are
talking about, your personal font choices for reading things on your
screen and your personal choices about printing email; you don't really
want to do that to/for someone else. The result is that you are asking a
misguided question that doesn't deserve a real answer as asked.

 

Oops. That part just above got bent. It should say that 'you should not
assume that your behaviors or choices are going to be the same as
others,' -- ie that your behaviors or choices are going to be very very
different from others; mine, for example.

 

Hello,

I want to thank everyone who took the time to offer constructive replies to
my post.

Martin