Two More Mac OS X Leopard Mail Templates
29
October
Sometimes simpler is better.
Especially in business settings. For personal use, most of the templates included with the new Mail application in Mac OS X Leopard are great. But they’re just too “cute” for most business use.
In an attempt to quickly create Mac OS X Leopard Mail templates that are more appropriate for business use, I offer up two more “not cute” versions. I’ve creatively named them “White 1″ and “White 2.”
Download White 1 & White 2 OS X Leopard Mail Templates here.
Screen captures of White 1 and White 2, based on the existing “Doodle” Stationery template.
Thanks for the template, I was looking for a non-cute example of a mail template. What software would I need to make my own template?
Anthonie… all you need is a text editor, like BBEdit, and a program like Adobe Photoshop to edit the graphics.
See here:
http://www.technosanity.com/2007/10/27/editing-mac-mail-stationery/
Or here:
http://www.technosanity.com/2007/10/27/a-customizable-mail-letterhead-template-for-os-x-leopard/
Jeff,
Can you point me to a photoshop tutorial that would help me create the shapes used above (bent photos with shadows)? I’d like to make my own photo masks that are vertical and positioned differently.
Thanks
Thanks for your help, as far as the business stationary for leopard goes, pretty lame. Equinox has a package too, but for business, lame.
Jeff, You have been such a help. I’ve been working at this thing for awhile but when I change an existing template as you gave instructions on another blog…i view it in mail but my graphics don’t show up. When I open the html file in my browser, everything is fine??? Do you know why this is or what I can do.
Melvin… can you send me the stationery so I can take a look? tojt at mac dot com.
Thanks… sent it over to you, let me know if you got it.
Melvin… sent it back already… I think it has to do with you having changed the file names. I didn’t do that. So, the plist needs to be changed as well then. I did that for you and resent. Let me know if it works.
Yep, it does, Thanks again. You fill the gaps where apple slacks!
I tried to download the template that have 2 white stationery and I always get the same template on my mail , besides I can not save it as stationery I can only save it as draft .
is there any site for user created stationery or you can download stationery besides the equinux stationery site.
Walid… I have not found any other site like you describe yet.
Thanks its work pefectly
uhh…to further my last comment, those are not the templates you describe them as. Wut up?
Greg… I just downloaded them from here and they are exactly what is shown in this blog post. Not sure what you’re seeing.
I got the logo stationery working fine now. Even though I have put the white ones in the same place they show up as the original Doodle if I double click on them and they don’t show up in Choose stationery in Mail at all. How come they’re not white and don’t integrate with mail as the logo one?
I just wont give up on theese …
Eva again
I must be missing something – I downloaded the templates but can’t figure out how to get them to show up in the stationery list on mail.
Follow the path in this post:
http://www.technosanity.com/2007/10/27/editing-mac-mail-stationery/
And put the stationery items there.
if you want it to show correctly, you have to change the ID of the stationery…
I am having trouble with these downloads and locating where to put them. I’m on the 10.5 version and wondering if the stationary locations are somewhere different..??
Any ideas?
wow, thanks a lot for this nice template and for the help on this page …
best for you
V.
Heather, no the locations should be the same. I haven’t had a chance to double check that, but nothing has changed about the app since the upgrade to 10.5.
Thanks ! I am new to Leopard, about 1 hour new to it, and I already have a couple of great and easy to install email stationary looks!
After I upgraded to 10.5.1 my mail stationery disappeared. I hoped they’d return with the 10.5.2 upgrade but they didn’t. It would seem I’m not alone. Today I finally found where they’re supposed to be, after I bought a package of templates from equinux.
Here’s the route: User>Library>Application>Support>Mail>Stationery>Apple>Contents>Resources.
Hmm. I was a bit put off by your bubble video. It was creepy at first but it seems ok now that I know you didn’t hack my iSight!
Hi my name is Noel Smith, I’m a Tae Bo instructor in the UK and I have just purchased a macbook. I am just discovering the new features on Leopard. I often email my clients and was glad when I saw templates in Mail. However they are very PCish and cannot be used for my business. So I was more than interested when I went onto your website and saw that you have alternative templates. However I have downloaded these templates and cannot import them into mail. Please can you tell me how to do this. Thanks very much and keep up the good work.
Noel
Hi Jeff, thanks a lot for your white templates , I would like to ask you if it is possible to have them black also . Or is there a simple way to make it by myself?
Aleks
As stated on the other thread (http://www.technosanity.com/2007/10/27/editing-mac-mail-stationery):
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.
“The logo will look best if you save it at 175 pixels wide by 132 pixels high, though you can resize this and position it as you would any other photo.”
I would like to add my logo but it is actually about 3 times as wide relative to the same height (~550 X 140 pixels). Can I do that with this logo. Thanks!
I would just give it a shot, Terry. See how it looks to you.
I tried my logo but it only shows the middle third of the logo, like it is being masked. Any ideas? If you would like I can send you the stationery to show you what I mean. Thanks again.
I must be incredibly dense or too new to the Mac world to understand. I don’t see how to use anything as a template. I even went so far as to find a Mac stationery that would suffice, changed the “top.jpg” but can not figure out how to make the whole thing work. Can anyone help the 20+year MS user…. PLEASE!
Great information,I have bookmarked this site for future and will keep a eye on your other posts. Thank you