Saturday, September 24, 2016, 12:12:19 AM, Richard L de S Clauson (rich...@virbius.co.uk) wrote: > Thursday, September 22, 2016, 1:42:15 PM, Marck Pearlstone > (ma...@silverstones.com) wrote: >> Dear Richard, >> >> @22-Sep-2016, 6:03 +0100 (22-Sep 12:26 here) Richard L de S Clauson >> [RLD] in mid:967995112.20160922122...@virbius.co.uk said to TBUDL: >> >> ... <snip> >> >>>>>> email ends up much wider than the message plane in the 3-plane layout I >>>>>> use >> >>>> ... This is a bug in TB that was fixed 2 betas ago and is no longer >>>> an issue in the next release. >> RLD>>> Are you saying that if I now upgrade from 6.8.8 to 7.3.4 (the latest RLD>>> release) that emails formatted in the TheBat! HTML Viewer will look correct, RLD>>> and as good as those formatted in the Windows OS HTML Viewer? >> >> Essentially, yes. >> >> I wouldn't know whether or not they look "correct" since I haven't >> compared. All I can say for certain is that this specific bug was >> called out as a bug, addressed a month or so back in the beta version >> and has been fixed. This fix has improved my personal reading of HTML >> mails with embedded pictures to a point of near perfection rather than >> sprawling the message to the width of the largest picture and not >> scaling. >> >> I'm not certain of the release state of the fixed version. >> > > Marck, > > That sounds excellent news. One of my bug-bears with The Bat! was the way > that it sometimes failed to render an HTML email in a sufficiently readable > way when the sender was cavalier with the sizes of the images they supplied > and slack with the HTML code they used to define their output/display. > > I hope that this fix has also been replicated into the way emails are then > printed. Even if the Windows OS HTML Viewer rendering option is chosen the > printing rendering reverts back to that of The Bat! HTML Viewer rendering. > > I'll now put in for an Upgrade licence fron v6.x to v7.x. > > Thanks >
Marck, I've now upgraded from v6.8.8 to v7.3.12, but not all the "extra wide" emails are reformatted to fit inside the message pane of the triple-pane window. Most disappointed. -- Richard L de S Clauson, 0118-956-7775 or 07710-412815 email: mailto:rich...@virbius.co.uk website: http://www.virbius.co.uk/ ( more is hidden than viewable ! ) Virbius Business, 0844-588-1397 (fax 0870-879-1562) Using The Bat! v7.3.12 on Windows 7 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 7.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html