---marlyse wrote:
Even though the offered solutions are not in the category of I-don't-
want-to-nor-have-to-think-1-click solutions, I feel these are really
good options provided by a text emailer.
Um, we are talking about Macs here, not PCs. I do want features which
work as expected, without having to jump through hoops because they
don't work properly. ;-)
If PowerMail sent all HTML email to a web browser for reading I could
live with that. But if it can display HTML email, and print it, it
should do so in the same way as every other Mac program. What it does
now is neither standard nor intuitive.
Why should PM send HTML email straight to print without a dialog box?
This has nothing to do with HTML: it's a bug in PowerMail. Why should I
have to click into a specific window when I don't have to with text
email? Again, I don't see how this is because of HTML. HTML support is
not the issue, printing is the issue.
Either drop HTML support or fix it so it works as it should.
- Winston
I am sorry to see that you think of this as an error and something that
needs to be fixed because in fact it is a feature request that you have
(and I am sure CTM is taking note of it on their long list of user
requests ;-)
PowerMail is a text email application and that is where it excels at and
advertises itself and HTML is only minimally supported which all those
PM users who want a mainly text email application appreciate not just a
little, but a lot - I am for example one of these users (and not
affiliated with CTM).
Even though the offered solutions are not in the category of I-don't-
want-to-nor-have-to-think-1-click solutions, I feel these are really
good options provided by a text emailer.
---marlyse
former message(s) quotes: -
Printing via a web browser is still a work-around. Printing via the web
browser is what I normally do, but sometimes I either forget, or HTML
mail looks enough like text mail that I don't realize I need to do this.
I also get caught with not having clicked into the email text box, so
get a lot of blank pages with a header printed.
This is not a minor defect. Yes, I wish everyone still used text email,
but that's not the reality. Probably 98% of the email I get is HTML. I
don't have any other program on my Mac which cannot print properly.*
This needs to be fixed.
- Winston Weinmann
*(OK, some OS 9 programs have to jump through hoops to print via Classic.)
Am/On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:33:23 -0400 schrieb/wrote Tim Lapin:
On Tuesday, April 17, 2007, Winston Weinmann sent forth:
Don - Thanks, but this is a workaround, not a solution.
I do not like things printing immediately. I usually preview them first,
particularly emails, which often have stuff I do not need at the end.
Sometimes I only need to print the first page.
PowerMail should print HTML email the same way a web browser prints it.
why then you don't print it from the browser ?
simple click on the button on the bottom with the little globe and
choose open in browser.
Thanks and all the best
Matthias
