Different email clients have individual ways of displaying content, which can impact your email if it exceeds a certain size limit. By being mindful of your message length and the size of your images, you can prevent clipped content and distorted images in Gmail and Outlook.
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When your email message exceeds 102KB in size or is too content-heavy, Gmail clips it and makes the reader click "View entire message" to read the rest of your email.
To decrease the chance that part of your email appears hidden:
Message clipping can also occur when the Conversation view is enabled in Gmail. Multiple messages with the same subject line (both received and replies) are grouped into a single thread, and Gmail collapses the duplicate emails and clips duplicate content so you have to click to expand it. If you send lots of test emails to a Gmail address, change the subject line or disable the Conversation view to prevent clipping.
For more information about enabling or disabling Gmail's conversation view, please see Google's support.
Outlook uses an engine that has a 1728 pixel limit for the height of images displayed in an email. If an image is larger than 1728 pixels high, Outlook will manipulate the image - either by cropping the extra pixels from the top or bottom of the image, condensing it, or omitting the image entirely.
To decrease the chance your image will be distorted:
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