Comments on: Editing Mac Mail Stationery

By: Lisa Hinson

Lisa Hinson — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:57:15 +0000

I tried all this but found the easiest way to create a custom template is to use a screen grab of the stationery that has the most items that you liked. Then open in photoshop and make the changes there. Remember to save as a “.png”.. then open a new mail message. Drag the image into the mail message and save as stationery. There is your new stationery.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:01:20 +0000

I see there’s Taco HTML Edit for Mac OS X, but it expires in 30. I tried to open it with DreamWeaver, but no luck.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:50:56 +0000

Thank you very much Jeff. This was extremely helpful. Do you know of any free downloadable software that will allow me to revise and re-save/re-write the DisplayNames.strings file?

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By: David Todd Watson

David Todd Watson — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:16:37 +0000

I have also written a How To for Create your own HTML Templates for Mac Mail.

Take a look at how I customized a Stationary Template right from our website.

http://www.aktivnett.no/weblog_entry/plone/weblog/web-design/how-to-mac-os-x-10.5-leopard-html-mail-templates

By: Michael Tchong

Michael Tchong — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:59:24 +0000

Hi, I would like to pursue the “add a different logo size” question posted before.

How do I replace the AppleCompositeImage with my own logo? I want to use a much bigger logo than the 175 x 168 image container you provide.

By: Charlotte Rogers

Charlotte Rogers — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:04:49 +0000

Just to let you know: equinux offers hundreds of really impressive stationery templates that expand the possibilities of Leopard Mail. You can add your own photos in the clever masks, write what you want in the expandable text fields and many of them also allow you to play around with background colors and motifs. And they’ve just come out with a Season’s Greetings Collection to send Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year cards. If you’ve got Leopard Mail and like the stationery feature, you’re really going to enjoy Stationery Pack from equinux.

http://www.equinux.com/us/products/stationery/index.html

By: SomeOne

SomeOne — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:09:20 +0000

Note that users may not wish to modify the /Library/Application\ Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/ location (starting from the root of the hard drive) with their own creations, but instead should place custom entries within their own home folder, at the following path: ~Library/Application\ Support/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/ (where “~” represents your home folder).

This way, they will be more-easily portable via Migration Assistant, are directly a part of this single user’s environment (so a problem won’t modify behavior for any other users on the system), etc. This user-specific path is created for you if you use Mail’s “File -> Save as Stationery…” command.

By: Brian Sill

Brian Sill — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:13:51 +0000

Jeff,
Do the templates have to be so complicated? I created one for Outlook (for Windows) that looks like this (I replaced the less-than and greater-than’s with brackets):

[head][title id="ridTitle"]My Stationery[/title] [style][!-- body,P.msoNormal, LI.msoNormal { background-position: top left; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: "#FFFFFF"; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 12em; margin-bottom: 0em; color: "#000000"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-family: "Arial"; } --][/style] [/head] [BODY id="ridBody" background="Logo.gif"]
 
[/body]

and I’m trying to help one of our outside salesmen to install it on his Mac, and the ones that I downloaded from your blog are much more complicated. Is all that necessary?
Sincerely,
Brian

By: DJ Mas

DJ Mas — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:09:35 +0000

I start on my Place in the Finder, then I click on Library> Application Support> but there is no Apple> Mail. What do I do to get to stationary?

By: Jeff Turner

Jeff Turner — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:56:54 +0000

Martin, that is an excellent link. Thank you for posting it here!

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:05:34 +0000

Hi Jeff,
good post! Thanks!

Found another interesting tutorial which I wanted to share with you:

http://thegraphicmac.com/how-create-customized-osx-mail-stationery-leopard

Martin

By: Maureen

Maureen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:39:31 +0000

Hey Jeff,

I’d like to be able to send my RES flyers out as emails. I know I did this successfully before by editing one of your templates and pasting the flyer html into the email stationary, but for the life of me I can’t seem to make it work now. Feel like making a blank email template to use with RES flyers??? Or an instructional video would be nice.

Hope you are having a great week ~ Maureen

By: John

John — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:41:23 +0000

found stationery with Limewire. Can be edited to make even more

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:22:21 +0000

I found this method easier…

1. Compose your “template” page in a HTML editor such as MS Word, iWeb, or NVU.
2. Open or preview your page in Safari…
3. To get HTML into Apple Mail press Apple-i – that puts the current page into an email for you.
4. In Mail go to the File menu and choose – Save as Stationary…

By: Johnie Hendrix

Johnie Hendrix — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:26:26 +0000

Jeff,

Couldn’t wait. Downloaded the “taco” and in just a few seconds have now set the default font for my custom stationary! An understanding of html is of course required to do this but this worked SLICK as . . . . . !

Thank you Jeff! *bowing*

By: Johnie Hendrix

Johnie Hendrix — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:12:47 +0000

Jeff your AMAZING !

Thank YOU!

I’ll give this a try and let you know what strangeness happens. It’s late here, time for a late dinner then to bed for before my last cubicle work day before the holidays.

By: Jeff Turner

Jeff Turner — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:57:43 +0000

Johnie… I found a free one for you.

http://tacosw.com/

By: Jeff Turner

Jeff Turner — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:55:01 +0000

Johnnie… here is a link to their downloadable demo version, fully functional for 30 days.

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/demo.shtml

By: Johnie Hendrix

Johnie Hendrix — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:42:54 +0000

Thank You Jeff.

I’m just recovering from a G4 melt down loosing the ability to use ANY of my “classic” software which included a web design software called Dreamweaver. i was hoping not to have to buy even more new software. I’m now iMac’d and flat broke. Yippie.

Thank again.

By: Jeff Turner

Jeff Turner — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:37:36 +0000

Johnie… you’re going to need a program like BBEdit, something that won’t add any “extra stuff” to the code when you save it. That’s my suggestion.

By: Johnie Hendrix

Johnie Hendrix — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:12:31 +0000

HTML : stationary

I’m a typical “knows enough to be dangerous” wanna be geek. I’ve been messing about with creating new jpgs for creating custom stationary looks but am wondering how to get into the actual html of the stationary in order to SET the default text font.

Any ideas please? Thank you.

By: Mario Estrada

Mario Estrada — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:46:19 +0000

Hi! If the template doesn’t appear:
Take care to delete the string of Stationery ID in the “Description.plist” file. Just leave blank the under de tag. You will found this tags at the end.

Save changes and execute, Mail will prompt you if you want to install a new template.

Yuhuu! Hope to be usefull ^__^

By: Maureen

Maureen — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:44:59 +0000

Sometimes I wish I was a genuine Mac geek instead of a wanna be.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:30:38 +0000

Maureen… that is one of the downsides to the templates, the signatures need to be built into the html.