September 25, 2007 at 5:20 am
Today and yesterday issues again suffer from a lack of work wrap; text continues way to the right (2 or 3 page scrolls) making them just about unreadable. (Or does everyone else have 52" monitors?)
September 25, 2007 at 8:28 am
Got a link for this problem? I have not encountered that problem anywhere... and I've been around this site a lot yesterday.
September 25, 2007 at 9:01 am
Please include details about the url, newsletter, etc. to help track this down. We're working on things, but we have to prioritize and coordinate efforts.
September 26, 2007 at 8:09 am
In the past I too was suffering from the wide presentation in my Lotus Notes mail client. It sometimes returned to normal but then became wide again, sometimes different widths from one day to the next.
But with the recent remake of the site, the problem has gone away.
September 26, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Michael,
Do you mean in your client or on the site? I'm assuming the newsletter is a more consistent width with the new site.
Steve
September 27, 2007 at 5:23 am
I noticed the line wrap problem in the daily message dated 9/25 titled Replication Statement Delivery Options - Part 2 (SQLServerCentral.com 9/25/2007) from SQLServerCentral.com [subscriptions@sqlservercentral.com].
I'll try to forward the message back to you.
September 27, 2007 at 5:36 am
The culprit has been found, and it seems to be Microsoft!
When I went to forward the ill-formed issue back to you folks, Outlook insisted that I load the pictures (an option that, by default, I have turned off.) Once the pictures were loaded, the text justification was restored. (So I didn't bother sending it back.)
I can't claim to understand what was going on. It had not occurred for the past several months, although I had a period before that with the same symptoms.
Sorry...
September 27, 2007 at 10:03 am
Jim,
No worries and that was usually one of the first things to check. I need to get the image sizing included in the newsletter along with alt tags and that will fix the problem.
July 11, 2008 at 7:04 am
I think this subject needs a bump. I've noticed a number of times lately that the newsletters were running a little wide in my e-mail client, but today's issue [VBscript hacks for DTS packages (SQLServerCentral.com 7/11/2008)] really gets a prize! Today the QOTD included some pre-formatted text that made the page over 1500 pixels wide. Consequently, all the regularly flowed content also stretched to this width.
Andrew
--Andrew
July 11, 2008 at 10:01 am
I didn't see that in today's newsletter. I have Outlook 2007, and my resolution is 1152x864. A message window about 2/3 the screen shows the newsletter formatted fine.
Can you send an image to sjones at sqlservercentral.com?
Here's my partial screen attached.
If you download pictures, you should be OK. We try to add size tags, but don't always get them in there, so Outlook adds a very wide placeholder.
July 11, 2008 at 10:33 am
I have 2 monitors at work, both 1280 x 1024. The screen shot spans both of them; you can see pretty clearly the dividing line between them and that to view the message without a horizontal scroll bar, it is stretched open so wide that it spans to the second screen.
It may not be the pre-formatted area of the QOTD, but that looks like the most likely culprit.
E-mail client: GroupWise 7.0.1
--Andrew
July 12, 2008 at 10:21 am
It's got to be a Groupwise thing then. I had someone say that Outlook 2003 might be problematic as well.
Are you sure you're pulling down pictures and that your image looks like mine (albeit narrower)?
I can't really make out this screen shot, but if you have a better resolution one, can you send to webmaster at sqlservercentral.com and I'll log a bug.
July 12, 2008 at 10:42 am
FYI: I have never had a problem with the newsletter size using Internet Explorer 6 with yahoo mail.
SQL = Scarcely Qualifies as a Language
July 14, 2008 at 7:27 am
I think it must be the QotD, because today's newsletter is the same width. I don't normally pull down images in e-mail. That is the default in all the mail clients I use (GroupWise, Thunderbird and GMail) and is so for good reason, so I haven't changed the setting. I did enable images for that message, but nothing changed.
It did forward the message to my GMail account and it seems to render OK there (with and without images), so it must be a GroupWise issue.
I'm not sure what I can do to improve the resolution for that image to help you out. It is a rather large image — measuring 2560 pixels × 1024 pixels — which understandably looks pretty squashed in viewers like Windows Picture and Fax Viewer if shown using the (often default) "best fit" option rather than "actual size". In the image, the mail window is stretched to 1513 pixels to eliminate the horizontal scroll bar. At that size, the last statement in the QotD example appears as a single line with no breaks:
Drive C:\ is being reformatted, please wait...
COMPLETE
Msg 233, Level 20, State 0, Line 0
A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (error: Cannot open file for database 'Master' at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\master.mdf)
--Andrew
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