From Irene [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-09-13 09.18 (+0200 GMT) >Irene wrote, On 09/09/2008 : >Can someone help me with this. Sent a .jpg attachment to a Mac user and >was told it was not received as an attachment but as "code" inside the >email. > >"Damienn" kindly replied on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 >> >>I had the same problem when I sent .jpg-attachments to a Mac-user >>(however he used a web-mail at that time, and my mail-encoding setting >>was Binhex). I changed it to Smart, (like you), and the problem was gone >>(unlike you). >>Try AppleDouble or Base64 (we live in a strange time) and see what happens. >> >>Damienn > >Thanks for pointing out that changing the encoding method might make a >difference. I hadn't thought of that. Will try that first in future if >the problem resurfaces. Can't do it now because the original jpg no >longer exists. I opened it in Photoshop Elements and "saved it for the >web". Then resent it and it was received as an attachment. > >This jpg was the first photo downloaded from my digital camera that I >tried to send as an attachment. I use Canon Image Browser to organize my >photos. This program creates a special thumbnail icon for each photo. >I'm wondering now if that might have caused the problem which was >"fixed" by Photoshop Elements. Don't know enough about such things but >at least found a way round it.
Hi Irene, Then it seems to me that we were dealing with somewhat different problems, 'cause I used GraphicConverter to remove all meta-information (icon, preview, EXIF- and IPTC-data etc.) before I resent my JPG to the guy with no success, until I changed the mail encoding from Binhex to Smart, and that did the magic. On the other hand I could send JPGs without any tweaking with Base64 (Windows-encoding) to PC-guys, so there were nothing wrong with my JPGs themself, which makes me wonder if even Base64 is nowadays a better choice to send attachments to Mac-users than good-old Binhex. Like I said: who knows these days, when many of our Macs are running on Intel and Unix. In the name of compatibility and better usability we seem to had to abandon some old Mac-standards. Anyway, the important thing here is that you found a solution, and that it works for you now. BTW I also heavily used Photoshop Elements when it was version 2. I liked it then, but when I tried out its later versions, they seemed more and more like bundles/copies of Photoshop itself = a pro's choice, where simplicity got replaced by more complexity. Did I wished for that, I would have gone for the mother program in stead. So bye-bye Elements. Damienn _______________________________________________________________________ Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich _______________________________________________________________________
