#Leopard mail stationery how to

Make sure you save the file as plain text, and with the.

YouвЂ™ll want to use only characters and spaces (for whatever reason, when I used a hyphen or underscore it doesnвЂ™t work). Change that to whatever you wish to name your file. YouвЂ™ll notice that near the top of the HTML code, the Title tag of the stationery (Sand Dollar) appears. Open the content.html file just to get an idea of the HTML structure of the final template file. Here you will see seven files and more language folders. Go ahead an open the Content/Resources folders until you see the basic files for the Stationery template. Finding the stationery art filesДЄnother Finder window will open. Step 3Д¬ontrol+Click (right-click) on the Sand Dollar.mailstationery file on your desktop and select Show Package Contents. We want to work on a copy of the file, not the original.

Option-drag the Sand Dollar.mailstationery file to your desktop. You will see 8 files and some folders (how many folders depends on how many languages you have installed on your system). Go ahead and open the Stationery/Contents/Resources folder. Using Apple's own stationery as a starting point Step 2ДЇor the sake of keeping it easy in this tutorial, I chose to base my customized email off of one of AppleвЂ™s built-in templates called Sand Dollar Stationery. They are Birthday, Announcements, Photos, Stationery, and Sentiments. Inside this folder, youвЂ™ll see five more folders named the way you see them in Mail when you click the Stationery button in the upper right corner of new emails. Navigate to the root level of your Macintosh hard drive and go to: Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources. Next, youвЂ™ll need a text editor that can save files as plain text AppleвЂ™s TextEdit will do, but you can use any one you wish. First, youвЂ™ll need a graphics editor I suggest Adobe Photoshop, but Pixelmator or any other app that allows you to save specific size files as JPG and PNG will do. YouвЂ™ll need just a few things to create your own custom Mail stationery. For the sake of this tutorial though, IвЂ™ll keep it simple. Of course, if you have knowledge of HTML, you can do a lot more with your customization. This tutorial is fairly simple, and youвЂ™re only limitations are your graphics skills. You can create your own customized Mail stationery quite easily I decided it was about time that I took a look at it again to make sure nothing had changed with all the updates to Leopard, and the release of Snow Leopard. To this day, itвЂ™s still one of the most popular articles on this site.

#Leopard mail stationery how to

Back in 2007, I wrote a tutorial on how to create your own customized OS X Mail stationery when Leopard was first released.