: How to add clickable hyperlinks for email id, website, telephone in mail signature designed using Illustrator? One of my colleague had created a signature for the company using Adobe Illustrator.

@Karen819

Having some experience with this myself, I agree, Bakabaka is completely right. You don't want your email signature to be a single image - you run the risk of it being stripped out by aggressive security filters, but also, spam filters don't like those images and worse that your sig being stripped out - your message may never arrive because it's been caught as spam - that has a whole mess of other implications.

The best method is 1990's style, basic HTML markdown - reducing the divs and spans and tables, which spam filters look at closely.

Emailsignature.com renders their sigs this way - and you can manage them centrally for everyone/anyone in your company. We use them (their cloud version) for that and peer-to-peer email campaigns.

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@Merenda852

An e-mail signature should not be just an image. Don't forget that lots of people have images turned off in their e-mails by default, unless they press a button (which most won't do). Moreover, having the contact info there as (copyable) text is a huge plus that an image lacks.

Technically, I guess it's possible to make an html signature with just your image and a heatmap for the actual links, but this is far from wise. Most e-mail clients will not be able to parse the heatmap, in addition to the copyability issue mentioned above.

I'd say convert it all to html -- the simplest kind possible. Keep only actual images as such, and type out text as, well, text. That way, it's easy to place an <a> tag around it for a clickable link.

Lastly, I don't think a *.pdf as an e-mail signature is ever going to work: the contents of the *.pdf aren't visible when you open the e-mail, you'll have to open the *.pdf separately. Again, most users won't do this. Personally, I'd feel quite annoyed if all I got for my trouble of opening was your contact info - which should already be present in your actual mail without any extra effort.

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