Check an attachment before you send

Attach a file to a message and it appears as a chip under the body. Double click the chip and the file opens over your message, so you can see what you are about to send before you send it.

Both PDFs and images open in the TALISK_HQ viewer, with the same controls: zoom in and out, Fit width, Fit page, rotate, print and download. A PDF also gets page controls. Either way the message stays exactly as you left it underneath. Close the preview by pressing Escape or with the close button.

This works the same way in the full compose window and in a reply written inside a thread. If you prefer the keyboard, move to the chip with Tab and press Enter.

Making a photo or a scan bigger

Use + and -, or hold Ctrl (Cmd on a Mac) and scroll. A trackpad pinch does the same thing. Fit page returns the whole file to the window and Fit width fills the width. Once a file is bigger than the window, drag it to move around.

An image opens at the size it fits the window, and never larger than the file really is. A small or blurry photo is shown at its true size rather than blown up, because enlarging it adds no detail. You can still zoom past that if you want a closer look at a stubborn line of text.

On a phone, pinch to zoom and double tap to switch between fitting the screen and a closer view.

Which files you can preview

PDFs and images. The chip tells you which is which: a file you can open shows a magnifier cursor when you hover it, and one you cannot looks like a plain label. A CAD file, a spreadsheet or a zip has no preview, so double clicking it does nothing rather than opening an empty window.

Forwarding a message

A forward carries the original message's attachments, and those preview too. It is the same file the recipient will get, read back from the mailbox it arrived in.

Reopening a saved draft

Attachments that were already saved with a draft show as chips but cannot be previewed. Their contents are held on the draft rather than in your browser. Files you attach in this sitting preview normally.

Removing the wrong one

The small × on a chip takes that file off the message. Previewing a file never removes it, and removing one never opens it.

This works on every chip, including the ones on a draft you saved earlier and came back to. The file disappears from the message straight away; a moment later TALISK_HQ rewrites the saved copy in your mail account without it, so what goes out is what you can see.