By default, Apple Mail displays attachments in place. Emails with complex PDFs or PostScript files can take a long time to load. This plug-in reverses that default behaviour, ensuing that attachments are always displayed as icons.
You can continue to work with attachments as normal and can even force them to display in place by selecting “View in Place” from the attachments contextual menu, which appears when you right-click (or control click) on an attachment icon. It features a simple to use installer/uninstaller.
It is shareware. A licence costs USD 6. You can download it from the Loki Software website.
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Bless you, this one’s a god send!
I guess so. I never use it, but I imagine for someone in the graphic design business, it’s very useful.
All those enormous attachments :(
Well, we typically don’t send huge attachments, it’s not really what email is for — but we’ll still, on occassion, get a very complicated pdf. These will typically be small in file size, but have lots of ‘nodes’ and other vector information — which will take a while to render on a screen (try scanning in a document to vector, save it out — it’ll be relatively small, but have so much information, it takes a screen a while to render it).
Another problem. Forward an Mail message that was received with say a jpg or pdf attachment to a colleague on windows (outlook) and the attachement is lost or not usable.
Hopefully this will fix that – I’ll check it out.
David,
Make sure you have “Edit -> Attachments -> Always Send Windows-Friendly Attachments” checked…