Evolution not displaying fonts correctly...

**perfecttao** · May 27th, 2008

Hi,

Not sure if this is an Evolution problem (same behavior in Fedora 9), or whether it's a PBCAK (problem between chair and keyboard....namely me!)

I've installed all the appropriate fonts (MSTT etc) and they work fine in OpenOffice, but whenever I compose an email in Evolution, it looks fine on screen at my side, but the recipient (opening in outlook) either gets a "plain text" email or in Times New Roman. I've specified the font in Preferences->Composer Preferences-> so that Format Messages in HTML is checked and also the message fonts under Mail Preferences is set to Trebuchet MS

We have a strict font/template policy in the office - this is why this is an absolute must. It's a real headache as without this I will HAVE TO start using windows again. Something I am absolutely loathe to do.

PLEASE HELP - not sure where I'm going wrong!

P

**perfecttao** · May 28th, 2008

bump??

**prshah** · May 28th, 2008

Originally Posted by perfecttao

I've installed all the appropriate fonts (MSTT etc) and they work fine in OpenOffice, but whenever I compose an email in Evolution, it looks fine on screen at my side, but the recipient (opening in outlook) either gets a "plain text" email or in Times New Roman.

Please post the raw code (source) of any (harmless) email that you've sent; don't forget to block out email addresses and other personal info!

**perfecttao** · May 28th, 2008

Thanks for the reply....

there is no FONT tag in the message body, which is where I think the problem lies, but not sure of the cause

--=-F3vWxZLXKLQYZCj8efGU
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
End of test!

Paul

--=-F3vWxZLXKLQYZCj8efGU
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.18.1">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG 
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG 
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 
End of test! 
 
Paul 
 
</BODY>
</HTML>

--=-F3vWxZLXKLQYZCj8efGU--

any advice welcome!!

Thanks in advance.

P