Comments on: Work-around for Outlook attachment problems http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:52:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jon http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2809 Jon Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:20:02 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2809 Damn :( Damn :(

]]> By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2807 Tim Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:12:51 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2807 Jon, you would think so. But in fact, it doesn't seem to help much for many people: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2138572� Jon, you would think so. But in fact, it doesn’t seem to help much for many people:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2138572�

]]> By: Jon http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2806 Jon Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:00:37 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2806 Check out "Send Windows Friendly Attachment" options when adding a file with the attachment button (not available via drag and drop) jon Check out “Send Windows Friendly Attachment” options when adding a file with the attachment button (not available via drag and drop)

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]]> By: Dan Ridley http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2778 Dan Ridley Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:07:10 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2778 The inverse problem happens too: if Outlook senders are using Outlook's "Rich Text" format instead of HTML, the attachments will often arrive inside "winmail.dat" files, which are difficult to open. (There's a program called <a href="http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/" rel="nofollow">TNEF's Enough</a> which can extract the contents of those files, though.) <blockquote>For some reason InDesign steadfastly refuses to see them as InDesign Tagged Text and places the entire code of the file as a plain text frame.</blockquote> If the files do import into InDesign from the original machine, I'd suggest zipping the files before you e-mail them. This usually fixes problems with plain-text formats getting mangled. The InDesign Tagged Text format is a bit tricky with regard to text encoding. In particular, the encoding tag at the top has some special requirements, and your line endings must match the platform that your encoding tag specifies. <a href="http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/54161.htm" rel="nofollow">This knowledge base article</a> is your friend. The inverse problem happens too: if Outlook senders are using Outlook’s “Rich Text” format instead of HTML, the attachments will often arrive inside “winmail.dat” files, which are difficult to open. (There’s a program called TNEF’s Enough which can extract the contents of those files, though.)

For some reason InDesign steadfastly refuses to see them as InDesign Tagged Text and places the entire code of the file as a plain text frame.

If the files do import into InDesign from the original machine, I’d suggest zipping the files before you e-mail them. This usually fixes problems with plain-text formats getting mangled.

The InDesign Tagged Text format is a bit tricky with regard to text encoding. In particular, the encoding tag at the top has some special requirements, and your line endings must match the platform that your encoding tag specifies. This knowledge base article is your friend.

]]> By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2768 Tim Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:46:05 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2768 Interesting. I wonder why. No doubt you are using Plain Text as the default format already. Interesting. I wonder why.

No doubt you are using Plain Text as the default format already.

]]> By: Dan Warne http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2767 Dan Warne Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:28:25 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/22/work-around-for-outlook-attachment-problems/#comment-2767 I do have some problems with Apple Mail attachments too. Every month I extract a large text file from a database, which is actually InDesign Tagged Text, ready to be placed into a layout. It is extracted from the database via a web-interface. On the odd occasion that I have saved it on my Mac desktop (from Safari or Firefox) and then attached it to an Apple Mail mail and sent it to myself at work, the files haven't placed correctly. For some reason InDesign steadfastly refuses to see them as InDesign Tagged Text and places the entire code of the file as a plain text frame. I haven't figured out if it's a Mac character encoding issue of some sort, or whether Apple Mail manages to mangle it somehow along the way. I do have some problems with Apple Mail attachments too. Every month I extract a large text file from a database, which is actually InDesign Tagged Text, ready to be placed into a layout. It is extracted from the database via a web-interface. On the odd occasion that I have saved it on my Mac desktop (from Safari or Firefox) and then attached it to an Apple Mail mail and sent it to myself at work, the files haven’t placed correctly. For some reason InDesign steadfastly refuses to see them as InDesign Tagged Text and places the entire code of the file as a plain text frame.

I haven’t figured out if it’s a Mac character encoding issue of some sort, or whether Apple Mail manages to mangle it somehow along the way.

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