A GThing Science Project

If you've ever tried to include a logo in your Apple Mail signatures, you know it can be a pain. Mail wants to add a space above and a space below the image, which can make your sig look all retarded instead of super professional.

There doesn't appear to be any consistent way of fixing this, but here's a few things to try.

Start by removing the line below the image first. To do that delete all the spaces between the image and the text so the text sits to the right of the image. To finalize this change, click on another tab within mail prefs and then back onto the signatures tab.

Once you've confirmed that changes by doing the tab dance, place your cursor between the image and text and hit return once. Do the tab dance again to see if the changes stuck and worked. You should have this now:

Now move onto the top line, place your cursor at the end of the line of text above your image ("towel boy") and hit delete (fn+delete for forward delete) until the image is sitting to the right of your text thusly:

Now do the tab dance to confirm your changes. If you're lucky, you'll now have this:

Note that you may need to try this a few times to get it to work. I know that the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, but in this case you will get different results. I'm pretty sure Mail is the insane one here.

(Hint: Try deleting the white space in different ways - i.e. using forward delete vs. backwards delete or some combination of the two).

Once you can do the tab dance and still have your signature looking the way you want it, go start a new message and see if it's okay there. This seems to show up okay in Outlook and gmail so you should be good to go but YMMV.

If you just can't get it to work, there is one more trick you can try. Place a period on the side of the image that is giving you trouble (left side=top space, right side=bottom space). Using the Format/Alignment Menu, float the image left, and align the period(s) left as well. If this works, then you can color the periods white with the Format/Show Colors menu.