{"id":193,"date":"2008-10-31T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T07:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-10-31T06:20:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T13:20:31","slug":"printing-tiny-e-mail-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Printing Tiny E-mail Text"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who was the fool who decided that e-mail would be best sent using fancy “stationery”? I’m talking fonts, colored backgrounds, winky-bouncy-bubble heads \u2014 all that junk. While it may thrill you, it’s annoying readers like Bea, who finds the text sent to her in e-mail messages too tiny to print.
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\nI’m a plain text e-mail guy from years back. I compose all my e-mail in plain text. After all, under the hood, all e-mail is plain text. When you junk up your e-mail with fancy formatting, you’re still sending plain text, but that text is formatted like a web page.<\/p>\n

Some e-mail programs strip out all the junk, removing fancy fonts, pretty colors, and text sizes. Eudora<\/a> does that. The end result is that you receive an e-mail message that looks like plain text, in a font and size you can determine on your computer, not something the sender sets up.<\/p>\n

Bea’s question was this:<\/p>\n

I was wondering why no books cover,”printing printing e-mail or if does print it is too small to read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My books do cover a solution, just not one specific to tiny text. The solution is to try and get the text from the e-mail message and to the printer somehow removing the font attributes between those two locations. Here’s one way to accomplish that:<\/p>\n

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  1. Select all the text from the e-mail message.<\/li>\n
  2. Press Ctrl+C to copy that text.<\/li>\n
  3. Open a new, blank word processing document.<\/li>\n
  4. Press Ctrl+V to paste your e-mail message text.<\/li>\n
  5. Reformat the text. Change the font size to something larger. In Word, you can press Ctrl+A then Ctrl+Spacebar to reformat the entire document to the Normal style, which is readable and printable.<\/li>\n
  6. Print the document: Ctrl+P.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After reformatting, the document prints just fine.<\/p>\n

    Of course, the bottom line is that tiny text in an e-mail message is not a problem based on something you did. It’s the way the person sending the message formatted things. When I receive such a message, I reply to the sender and ask them if they can send me plain text<\/em> e-mail messages. Most often, they reply. They’re usually surprised that their text formatting doesn’t read well. And they’re thankful that I let them know how their messages were coming across.<\/p>\n

    After they change, often they write back that others have told them that the text was a problem but, because few people understand computers, the other recipients didn’t know whether it was their problem or not. Now you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Who was the fool who decided that e-mail would be best sent using fancy “stationery”? I’m talking fonts, colored backgrounds, winky-bouncy-bubble heads \u2014 all that junk. While it may thrill you, it’s annoying readers like Bea, who finds the text sent to her in e-mail messages too tiny to print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}