RE: Resend: dealing with designers

by "Ann Ezzell" <amcbainezzell(at)alum.mit.edu>

 Date:  Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:03:21 -0700
 To:  "'HWG Techniques'" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 In-Reply-To:  net
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Maybe I could talk the Marketing Director into ASCII art, and just stick
with plain-text e-mail... 

;-)

That might be worth a try, but there's the bandwidth to consider.

Arrrggghhh! I should never have pointed out to them that this was possible!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org 
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Wheeler
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:50 PM

> > > > I'm looking for suggestions on how to convey to our graphic
> > > > designer - who does an absolutely awesome job of designing
> > > > print materials - that some of the things she wants to do
> > > > just don't translate well to HTML.
> 
> As much as I am loath to suggest it, your path of least 
> resistance may be to 
> look at sending them as pdf attachments. microsoftie email app will 
> autolaunch them these days regardless of security issues 
> anyway ... so it 
> should be seeamless to the average recipient.
> 
> Email was never designed to handle html properly, if at all 
> in some cases.
> 

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