Messages displaying with oversized font

[Tom McCreadie]

With Eudora 7.0.0.16, all mails I receive from a person using Apple Mail
client display with bloated font size - e.g. 18pt instead of 12pt. These
same messages display normally, though, when I use Forte Agent 5 as my
client or when viewing the mail directly on the server of my ISP, using the
ISP's web mail prog.

FWIW the message header of the offending mails is:
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1)
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1)
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail.......

If I reply to him via Eudora - or just forward the message to myself - then
it comes in 'visually repaired', with the following header info:
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.0.16
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

Any settings to fix this annoyance?: at the Apple Mail sender end...or at my
end, to change Eudora's handling of multipart/alternative? It's no big
deal, but curious minds want to know <g>.

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Tom McCreadie

Live at The London Palindrome - ABBA

[John H Meyers]

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:00:31 -0600, Tom McCreadie wrote:

[about the stated subject]

Fonts (and text sizes, which may be in either absolute
or "relative" form) are specified within the HTML as received.

Whatever rendering engine is used may not be able
to find the specified font on the local system,
in which case it must substitute another.

Non-absolute text sizes will use local defaults or assumptions.

Your choices for HTML rendering engines, within Eudora,
are Eudora's limited internal engine,
or "use Microsoft's viewer" (employs a DLL
from your current version of Windows Internet Explorer,
using either the same or "different" settings),
or you can send any message to be viewed
in your default web browser, instead of in Eudora.

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[Tom McCreadie]

John H Meyers wrote::

>r.
>
>Non-absolute text sizes will use local defaults or assumptions.
>
>Your choices for HTML rendering engines, within Eudora,
>are Eudora's limited internal engine,
>or "use Microsoft's viewer" (employs a DLL
> from your current version of Windows Internet Explorer,
>using either the same or "different" settings),
>or you can send any message to be viewed
>in your default web browser, instead of in Eudora.

Thanks for setting me straight, John. My Eudora setting had indeed been
_not_ to use Microsoft's viewer. When I reset Eudora to use the Viewer, and
also use the same settings as IE, the text now displays more demurely.

Still a tad large, though, for my taste. For illustration, the old
offending text when pasted into a blank Word doc would show as Style "
Normal" / Size 18pt. The improved text gives Style "apple-style-span"/ Size
13.5pt. I expect I can grind that down with a bit more tinkering.

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Tom McCreadie

"Music is the greatest silent force in the world" - Lionel Richie