Comments on: How to Make New Stationery for Mail (Getting Started)

By: Aldo

Aldo — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:30:17 +0000

I have created a html file that i can use as a template. comes up perfect. i cant type anything in the mail. wont let me. Is this something i can fix.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:40:38 +0000

How do you change the bg_pattern.jpg for stationary so it stays a one image and not a repeated small section of the image used?

By: James

James — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:07:43 +0000

Stationeries are available through Limewire it seems. I edit to make more…

By: joemart1951

joemart1951 — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:56:56 +0000

Hay Soraya,
I would love to see your corporate stationary example.
I am wanting to do the same thing.
Joe

By: Soraya

Soraya — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:28:36 +0000

Hi, I’ve created a corporate stationary for my company, and would like to set it as a default stationary for all new emails (and not having to manually apply it every time).

Do you know if this is possible?

TIA, S.

By: crisware

crisware — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:16:02 +0000

Good Evening Steve ,

Woah !! you answered me…. thanks a lot !!
there is so many sites you would like ask and reply
that many times you have any reply :-((((

Well by now will follows your advice and will download
Xcode form apple site….

then will do by now my first trial for an custom email template
using traditional way with html codes and gif or jpg pics
and if you permit will send it to you to check is working well or not

secondly will do an elaborate email template with background design
elaborated

and finallly will do an flash eamil template with my animated logo
some my backgrounds and sounds… what that will do ????

Have a good night and once more thanking you your answer… merci Steve

Chris
crisware@free.fr
http://crisware.free.fr

By: steveblue

steveblue — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:21:44 +0000

Crisware,

You can copy the Mail Stationary files and edit them, just be sure to back up the originals.

Only certain Stationaries use headers and footers. It is possible to do without, but stick to the nomenclature that is already established i.e. bg_pattern.jpg : The Background Image.

XCode is on the Leopard Install DVD in the Additional Installs folder or can be downloaded from Apple for free. You need Package Maker for the final steps.

As far as flash animations, not so sure if they will work but try it out and get back to me. If flash animations do not work, try animated .gif (not sure of either).

Dreamweaver will be a fine html editor for adjusting or creatign templates. I would suggest updating to CS3 though, as soon as Adobe issues the promised “fixes” for Leopard.

You will see as many language folders as you have languages installed. The reason I didn’t see any except English is because I used Monolingual to delete extra languages I don’t use to save disk space on my MacBook Pro.

I like your website. Are you an Artist living in France? I am an Electronic Artist in Syracuse, NY USA. I am interested in conversing with other Artists across the World. If you would like to start corresponding about Art, please email me at steveblue@iuseapple.com.

Kind regards,
Steve

By: crisware

crisware — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:48:39 +0000

Oops … papy is pertubated :-))

I forgot to notice you that I am french mac user
and I have a lot of languages.Iproj not only French.Iproj or English.Iproj
but a lot !!

If you are interesting I can send you a screenshots … let me know

Bye

Chris

By: crisware

crisware — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:44:32 +0000

Hi Steve Bleu (in french)

well by where to start !!

First I am begginer in many things…

I bought yesterday latest imac 24″ with leopard 10.5 already updated this night to 10.5.1 and would like do my own email stationeries and customize it …

I already Have Flash 7 dreamweaver 7 photoshop but no Xcode as well as Package Maker … so is possible to do the job without it ??

then if I do copy one existing my.mailstationery and work with it that is possible ???
or necessary to have Xcode ??? and if necessary where to found it ?? is it a freeware ? and where to download ???

If papy is not silly guess if something like an html page ??
so is it possible to do it without top,bottom,letter and bg-background !!

you open dreamweaver do your design having already is own headleter or logo(top)
as well as the design (background) and background letter and at least on footer (bottom) what you want as address,phone,email,website link and so on….

is ti mad or is it possible to do such ????? and why not adding flash animation :-))))

cause if yes would use my design of my website (animated logo) some backgrounds and background musics to do my owm emails stationeries in accordance my website… have a look to http://crisware.free.fr/site.html to see what I am looking for…

Thanks alot Steveblue and compliments your job

With Friendly

Chris

crisware@free.fr

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:20:20 +0000

Hello Steve,

I’ve tried both. When I first publish the page and than do the same, It works properly. I think Safari cannot find the right resources?

Ron

By: steveblue

steveblue — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:54:11 +0000

Did you save the images as .jpg or .png?

Steve

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:00:07 +0000

Try…
designing your html stationary in, say Dreamweaver
open it up in Safari
comedown to File / Mail contents of this page (command i)
which then opens your html page in mail
save as stationary
bingo !!

Weta,

I like your solution, it’ s simple & fast. But in Mail, the pictures will not show. How come?

Ron

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:02:44 +0000

The Stationary ID tells Mail.app if it has already got this template in its “Personal” library (don’t really know where this is really stored in the file system). If the ID is already present, it won’t load the new stationary but rather use the first one that was preloaded on it (when you just double click on an .mailstationery file.)

The best way to create an Stationery ID is to use the Terminal. Just open a window and type the command:
> uuidgen

Copy and past its output.

Cheers!

By: hugh

hugh — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:44:03 +0000

I have managed to create new stationary templates. However i am still trying to figure out how to change the stationary ID tags if anyone wants a sample of my email send me your email address.

Hugh

By: Avery Z Chipka

Avery Z Chipka — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:40:16 +0000

The Stationary ID string is used to place a UUID which allows the system to tell the difference between stationary files. The UUID must be formated properly and not being used elsewhere in the system, a good way to create one properly is with and application like UUID Generator. Which can be downloaded at http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Developer-Tools/UUID-Generator.shtml

Although a UUID is not required at this time it is good programming practice to include one.

The English.Iproj folder and any other folder ending in .lproj is a folder that contains resources valid only for a specific language setting. Everyone on this board is seeing English.lproj because we all selected English as our default language during install. If you want your stationery to support multiple languages you will need to include these. I also noticed you left out how to have the stationery auto set the greeting name, your name, and your personal email address based on your address book. Drop me a line if you want those details added, or I can provide them and you can add them in.

By: steveblue

steveblue — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:23:18 +0000

Something could be missing in your TableofContents.plist arguments.

By: kp

kp — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:24:10 +0000

weta,

I tried what you said with Google’s home page.

Went to create a new message, clicked “Show Stationery” selected the custom one… the mail message “hung” (nothing clickable) for over a minute.

great tip but unfortunate bug.

By: weta

weta — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:07:50 +0000

Try…

designing your html stationary in, say Dreamweaver
open it up in Safari
comedown to File / Mail contents of this page (command i)
which then opens your html page in mail
save as stationary

bingo !!

By: Bakari

Bakari — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:49:24 +0000

This would make a great video tutorial for those of us who don’t quite as much knowledge of XTM and HTML. I worked it on some, but could quite finish it. But thanks for posting it.

By: steveblue

steveblue — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:18:48 +0000

Wow, fixed the post. Missed the spelling error in the rush to get Leopard posts out… Sorry everyone.

By: CHRIS

CHRIS — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:53:50 +0000

just a pointer on the spelling of stationery . . . with an ‘e’

……. hope you don’t take offense, dude!

cheers, Chris

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:48:24 +0000

I just accidently realized that if you click on the background of the “Bamboo” or “Daisies” templates, it cycles through colors. Thought that might be of interest.

By: Klaus Bjarner

Klaus Bjarner — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:33:37 +0000

Quote: “There are two oddball files among the Stationary, another TableofContents.plist and an English.lproj Folder (I imagine for others running Leopard in other languages this folder may change, can someone confirm?).”

I am running Leopard with danish as language, and I have a additional da.Iproj folder a long side an English.Iproj.

Kind regards
Klaus