I have recently been successful in convincing a friend to run his own business using GNU/Linux. I suggested that he use Evolution (most like MS Outlook which he is used to) for an email and PIM client. However, he is running into problems with embedding an image in his signature file. Although the image shows up when previewed under Edit -> Preferences -> Composer -> Signatures, and even while he is writing up an email, once it is sent in the sent box one can only see an image place holder. Similarly, receiving the email on a second machine running Microsoft Outlook, the image is only visible as a place-holder.

Interestingly enough however, the rest of the signature shows up (text) as does a scanned image of his hand signature which is part of the signature block too.

The machine is running Etch, and although he prefers KDE, the full Gnome libraries are installed. Evolution is enabled for HTML.

I have experimented with a number of different approaches to this, but always when I test it it is the same result. I have used the insert image option and am now wondering if I need to go down the route of writing a small HTML file for this. Seriously though, that does seem a little over the top for this though. Unfortunately, although I don't personally care for such things, he is really adamant that this image be part of his signature block.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Strictly a guess: is it possible that the Email recipient's PC simply doesn't recognize the file type of the image? Assuming that the "scanned image of his handwriting" is appearing correctly, can you convert the image (that's not appearing) to the same type of file as the scanned image? I realize it's a longshot but figured I'm throw it out there anyway

Thanks for your input J.W. Unfortunately, I've already been down that road with no success. I have converted the non-appearing image to *.png, *.jpg and *.gif (the digitised signature is a *.jpg).

I have resolved the issue however. I simply exported the desired signature block as a pdf, selected the text and image from the pdf, copied that into The Gimp, cropped it and scaled it and then inserted the whole image into the signature. Bit of a long-winded way around things, but fixed the matter at hand.