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**Category:** Freeway\
**Created:** [February 18, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email-ready-html-action/3995 "2009-02-18T22:53:59Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Max\_Fancourt](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Max_Fancourt)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email-ready-html-action/3995/1 "2009-02-18T22:53:59Z")
I have posted a new “ **Email Ready HTML** ” action at
[http://actionsforge.com/](http://actionsforge.com/)
Which takes some of the donkey work out of stripping adjusting and removing some of the items that Email applications either don’t need, use or like with an HTML document
**Basic Overview**
**Description**
This is an attempt in creating an action that will allow people to use an HTML 4.01 Transitional Freeway published document for use with Email applications.
This Action is in its very early beta form… but basically it moves the Styles into the body, removes the outer div automatically created by Freeway. Allows you to center the email via the outer table and finally removes the offending characters that stops the published HTML being run through TextMate’s “Move all styles to inline” if you have that application and bundle.
You will need to create your Artwork correctly e.g. tables only, turn off IE compatibility, uncheck Reinforce layout tables etc but it does allow you use styles in a way that HTML 3 documents cant. Normal testing applies so please test the output on as many email programs as you can especially… Hotmail Googlemail and Yahoomail from the final application you intend to use.
I could still do with getting rid of some the meta name tags via the action, but I ran out of time, so if anyone wants to add, suggest improvements or refine what I have done then … please… fill your boots… :o)
all the best max
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**Author:**  [@eidetic](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/eidetic)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:49am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email-ready-html-action/3995/2 "2009-03-05T08:49:22Z")
I would really like to see a sample freeway project that is set up correctly for use with this action, and for html email in general.
I’ve tried unchecking “reinforce layout tables” in the document setup, but it always appears checked and grayed out in the output section of the inspector. When I apply the action to my page, it simply doesn’t publish, so I know I’m doing something wrong - no idea what.
Any detailed help much appreciated!
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**Author:**  [@Max\_Fancourt](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Max_Fancourt)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email-ready-html-action/3995/3 "2009-03-05T13:35:54Z")
Hi Eidetic
Have you got an email address so I can send you an freeway example email and then you can see what the action does and how it works
Max
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**Author:**  [@eidetic](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/eidetic)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email-ready-html-action/3995/4 "2009-03-05T13:37:34Z")
Sure, how do I PM you from this forum?
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**Author:**  [@Julie1](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Julie1)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email-ready-html-action/3995/5 "2009-03-05T13:52:19Z")
Max,
can you send me that to?
Julie
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On Mar 5, 2009, at 3:49 AM, eidetic wrote:
> I would really like to see a sample freeway project that is set up
> correctly for use with this action, and for html email in general.
>
> I’ve tried unchecking “reinforce layout tables” in the document
> setup, but it always appears checked and grayed out in the output
> section of the inspector. When I apply the action to my page, it
> simply doesn’t publish, so I know I’m doing something wrong - no
> idea what.
>
> Any detailed help much appreciated!
>
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**Author:**  [@Max\_Fancourt](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Max_Fancourt)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email-ready-html-action/3995/6 "2009-03-05T14:18:41Z")
Hi All
ok let me put something up so people can down load it
speak soon max
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**Author:**  [@Max\_Fancourt](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Max_Fancourt)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email-ready-html-action/3995/7 "2009-03-05T14:39:33Z")
Hi all
This link contains an freeway example email which I have applied the action to.
[http://www.max-izzat.co.uk/email\_examples/example\_email.zip](http://www.max-izzat.co.uk/email_examples/example_email.zip)
The action allows you to use document type transition 4 html, removes the outer div, centers the outer table and moves the styles to within the body.
I have aslo included the output to next step Using TextMate which is to place the styles as inline styles. So if you look at the site folder you will see another html file called index1.html if you look at the two outputs you will see all the styles have been brought in line, and if you view them in a browser they should both look the same
all the best
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**Author:**  [@waltd](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/waltd)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email-ready-html-action/3995/8 "2009-03-05T14:46:40Z")
> On 5 Mar 2009, 12:37 pm, eidetic wrote:
>
> Sure, how do I PM you from this forum?
Since this Web site is a “front” for a traditional text-only mailing list, ca 1997, there’s no single answer to this question.
In Apple Mail: Click on the ‘From:’ address in the message to see a contextual menu. Select Reply to Sender from this menu to send a message “off-list”. (Other mail clients probably have a similar function, but I don’t know exactly how you access those, as I’ve used Mail since it came back to Apple with NeXT.)
In the Web view of this mailing list: Click on the name of the person at the top left of an individual message. If they have filled in their Contact Info in the My Account tab of the Web view (indicating that they DO want to be contacted off-list), then you will see one or more ways to contact them (see [http://freewaytalk.net/person/view/27](http://freewaytalk.net/person/view/27) for examples).
Formatting in the Contact Info field is regular Markdown, with the addition of some “microformats” to simplify creating links to the various IM widgets out there.
- aim:yourScreenName (AOL Instant Messenger)
- ymsgr:yourScreenName (Yahoo Messenger)
- msnim:yourScreenName (MSN Communicator)
- xmpp:yourScreenName (Jabber)
- skype:yourScreenName (Skype)
So, there’s an embarrassment of PM choices available to you.
Walter
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**Author:**  [@eidetic](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/eidetic)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email-ready-html-action/3995/9 "2009-03-05T16:39:13Z")
> On 5 Mar 2009, 1:39 pm, max wrote:
>
> Hi all
> This link contains an freeway example email which I have applied the action to.
>
> [http://www.max-izzat.co.uk/email\_examples/example\_email.zip](http://www.max-izzat.co.uk/email_examples/example_email.zip)
>
> The action allows you to use document type transition 4 html, removes the outer div, centers the outer table and moves the styles to within the body.
>
> I have aslo included the output to next step Using TextMate which is to place the styles as inline styles. So if you look at the site folder you will see another html file called index1.html if you look at the two outputs you will see all the styles have been brought in line, and if you view them in a browser they should both look the same
>
> all the best
> Max
Thank-you, much appreciated!
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