Evolution Signature Font Settings

You need to specify the font in the HTML signature. On your system the signature probably does not specify the font, so Evolution Mail takes the default font, and in this case it is the Arial font you installed.

What you can do is open one of the e-mails with the "correct" signature and copy/paste the HTML content to your own signature. In this way it should grab any font settings in the HTML code.

I Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V and for some reason it is still not working. I was able to enforce the font size, but for some unexplained reason it just shows as New York Time font.

I do not have New York Time fonts install on my system; perhaps I should. The company really wants everyone to be the same, but there is NO WAY that I am going to use Windows!!!!

To troubleshoot whether it works or not, you can simply compare the HTML code between an e-mail that has the "proper" signature and the testing signature you just created for Evolution Mail. Open two such e-mails and for each click on View/Message Source. If the HTML code for the signature is the same, then they are simply the same.

As a final test, you have to verify it on a Windows box with Outlook. Do you verify it in this way?

I was using a Windows box with Outlook 2003 to verify my changes. After many attempts here is how I finally got it to work. The fonts that I downloaded obviously did not work. I finally came across these; here is the short-cut on how to do it.

1. Google “liberation-fonts-ttf-3.tar.gz” and download this file. Make sure to save them to your desktop.

2. Unzip by preforming the following. Just copy & paste to the terminal.
  [Applications] --> [Accessories] --> [Terminal]

tar -xvf ./Desktop/liberation-fonts-ttf-3.tar.gz

3. Now you are going to need to copy them to the correct directory.

sudo cp -r liberation-fonts-0.2/ /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ [Enter your password]

4. Now you will need to regenerate the font cache; again just copy & paste. It doesn't get easier!!

sudo fc-cache

5. Now to remove the temporary file you have sitting on your desktop.

rm -r liberation-fonts-0.2/ ./Desktop/liberation-fonts-ttf-3.tar.gz

That was it.

New User - I went into Open Office.word processor and typed my signature. Then I copied it and lost the font that I wanted to use. I cannot seem to get the fonts to appear when creating my signature. This is becoming a huge problem right now for me. Also, I would like to place a "watermark" as the background for my email, can I do that?

Thanks,
Karla

Hi Karla,

To add watermark, I followed the steps as below:

1. Created a watermark image - JPEG 256x256 pixels - used light gray color to represent my watermark symbol and saved it in one of my document folder.
2. In evolution - Compose Message, Format -> Page to open the 'Page Properties' dialog box
3. Here for Background Image option, in custom, I selected the jpg image I just created.

Voila... immediately, the background of my mail message had a tile of the watermark image I created.
Hope this works for you.