Mail - attachments visible either as logo or full page/picture

Whenever I attach a photo, it displays as the full photo and not an icon. Last night I attached 4 documents (PDF) and two displayed as logos and the other two as full page display. How do I get mail to attach as logos only?

Greetings,
When you attach an image to an email, it is displayed in the message window and (if you send Plain Text email) to the recipient as well. If you have a group of images and you compress them into a single .zip or .sit file, they are shown as an attachment icon to you and the recipient when they receive it.
However, if you attach a PDF file that is a single page, it will be displayed in the message window; if your PDF file is more than one page, it will be shown as an icon.

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Hi Don,
That sort of works - problem is, I have two graphics in my standard signature - and it turns those into attachments as well!!!
Looks like the only way this (sort of) work, is to remove my default signature on creating the new email, insert the attachments, re-introduce the signature and send. This brings up another problem - when I receive the email in "Mail" my signature looks perfect, and the icons are the bottom, but I have discovered that in "Entourage" the attachments are perfect in the attachments pane, but my signature is all broken up into sections - even in an email without attachments!!!!
Looks like I will be experimenting over the weekend - if I have a Eureka moment, I will let you know - in the meantime I am grateful for your input Don.
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