1.6
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 1.6.1
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Installation Pre-Requisites
- User accounts and security
- The Importance of User Credentials on Installing and Running PrintShop Mail C...
- Installing PrintShop Mail Connect on Machines without Internet Access
- Installation Wizard
- Running Connect Installer in Silent Mode
- Activating a License
- Migrating to a new computer
- Uninstalling
- The Designer
- Generating output
- Optimizing a template
- Generating Print output
- Saving Printing options in Printing Presets.
- Connect Printing options that cannot be changed from within the Printer Wizard.
- Print Using Standard Print Output Settings
- Print Using Advanced Printer Wizard
- Adding print output models to the Print Wizard
- Splitting printing into more than one file
- Variables available in the Output
- Generating Tags for Image Output
- Generating Email output
- Print Manager
- Release Notes
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
Output, generated from an Email template, can have the following attachments:
l The contents of the Print context, in the form of a single PDF attachment.
l Other files, an image or a PDF leaflet for example.
Attaching the Print context is one of the options in the Send (Test) Email dialog.
See "Email attachments" on page99 and "Generating Email output" on page508.
Designing an Email template
With the Designer you can design Email templates. It is strongly recommended to start creating
an Email template with an Email Template Wizard, because it is challenging to design HTML
email that looks good on all email clients, devices and screen sizes that customers use when
they are reading their email.
This topic explains why designing HTML email design is as challenging as it is, which
solutions are used in the Email Template Wizards and it lists good practices, for example
regarding the use of images in HTML email. It will help you to create the best possible Email
templates in the Designer.
HTMLemail challenges
Creating HTMLemail isn't like designing for the Web. That's because email clients aren't like
web browsers. Email clients pass HTML email through a preprocessor to remove anything that
could be dangerous, introduce privacy concerns or cause the email client to behave
unexpectedly. This includes removing javascript, object and embed tags, and unrecognized
tags. Most preprocessors are overly restrictive and remove anything with the slightest potential
to affect the layout of their email client. Next, the HTML has to be rendered so that it is safe to
show within the email client. Unfortunately, desktop, webmail, and mobile clients all use
different rendering engines, which support different subsets of HTML and CSS. More often than
not, the result of these operations is that they completely break the HTML email's layout.
Designing HTML email in PrintShop MailDesigner
The problem of HTML email is that preprocessing and rendering engines break the HTML
email's layout. HTML tables, however, are mostly left untroubled. As they are supported by
every major email client, they are pretty much the only way to design HTML emails that are
universally supported. That's why Tables are heavily used to position text and images in HTML
email.
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