I would like to have some say (settings) in the line spacing when composing and reading email in Apple Mail. I am attaching an image from a newsletter and the same text which I pasted into Apple Mail which instantly reformatted to something which for my eyes. It’s Georgia 17 in both. One with 1 or less and the other with 1.5-1.75 spacing.
So, how can I adjust line spacing? and, if not, what are workarounds or other email clients which have that feature?
If formatting is important to me, I write the email as an RTF file in TextEdit and copy and paste to Apple Mail.
When I try this method, the line spacing changes do not hold. I have a 1.5 line spacing in TextEdit, but in Apple Mail it reverts back to single line spacing.
Am I missing something in how you are getting this to work?
A recipient’s email client has a lot to do with how an email is rendered. We used to test our (opt in) sales messages with multiple clients for this reason.
In my testing, the line spacing changes in Apple Mail before I send it to anyone. I have also tested it to recipients using multiple email clients. None of them see the increased line spacing.
Also doing online research, it seems like it is a commonly requested feature, but with no solution.
I have reverted to sending out email using Gmail for this reason. Would be very interested if Apple Mail had a solution
Don’t forget that email was not designed at the beginning to be a formatted communication. Hence, remember that readers can change the format to whatever they want–within the capability of their email client software–despite your herculean efforts to design your emails–even if you used Google’s Gmail to send the formatted email.
If you want emails with specific and not changeable (without effort) by the reader, write with a word processor, create a PDF, and send that PDF as an attachment to your emails.
After more than 45 years using email, and POP and IMAP being finalised in the 1980’s, sending formatted messages as PDF attachment the best generic way to retain formatting.
No, it’s possible all my efforts at formatting went for naught and I never knew!
