I recently emailed an important jpeg image to a colleague, but when he tried to insert it into a document it 'failed'. It appears that when jpegs are attached to messages, they become 'corrupted' - is this a known problem with evolution, and/or is there a way of solving the problem?
Andy
Andrew Allen wrote on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:24:52 +0000:
I recently emailed an important jpeg image to a colleague, but when he tried to insert it into a document it 'failed'. It appears that when jpegs are attached to messages, they become 'corrupted' - is this a known problem with evolution, and/or is there a way of solving the problem?
I'm missing a crucial part here: verification. He received the mail and he "inserted" it. Well, there's no mention that he saved it and *looked* at it. How do you know that it was corrupted *before* "insertion"?
Kai
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 00:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Andrew Allen wrote on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:24:52 +0000:
I recently emailed an important jpeg image to a colleague, but when he tried to insert it into a document it 'failed'. It appears that when jpegs are attached to messages, they become 'corrupted' - is this a known problem with evolution, and/or is there a way of solving the problem?
I'm missing a crucial part here: verification. He received the mail and he "inserted" it. Well, there's no mention that he saved it and *looked* at it. How do you know that it was corrupted *before* "insertion"?
Good point - having investigated the matter further, it appears that this is another compatibility issue between Microsoft and the rest of us! My colleague was trying to insert the jpeg image into a MS Publisher document, having saved the image etc. The image was not 'accepted' by MS Publisher, whereas when I ran a test to insert the same emailed image into an OpenOffice document it worked fine! So I was mistaken to say that the image was corrupted - I'll just have to pass the image to my colleague by means other than email.
Andy
Andrew Allen wrote on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:41:32 +0000:
I'll just have to pass the image to my colleague by means other than email.
Still one step missing: did he actually view it with an image viewer? If he can then it won't help to provide it by "other means" as it is the image itself that Publisher doesn't like. If he cannot it's more likely that someone (he or you) does something wrong with the attachment than that saving it on a Windows system changes it.
Kai
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Allen Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:42 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emailing jpeg images with Evolution 2.8.0
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 00:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Andrew Allen wrote on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:24:52 +0000:
I recently emailed an important jpeg image to a
colleague, but when he
tried to insert it into a document it 'failed'. It
appears that when
jpegs are attached to messages, they become 'corrupted' -
is this a
known problem with evolution, and/or is there a way of solving the problem?
I'm missing a crucial part here: verification. He received
the mail and he
"inserted" it. Well, there's no mention that he saved it
and *looked* at
it. How do you know that it was corrupted *before* "insertion"?
Good point - having investigated the matter further, it appears that this is another compatibility issue between Microsoft and the rest of us! My colleague was trying to insert the jpeg image into a MS Publisher document, having saved the image etc. The image was not 'accepted' by MS Publisher, whereas when I ran a test to insert the same emailed image into an OpenOffice document it worked fine! So I was mistaken to say that the image was corrupted - I'll just have to pass the image to my colleague by means other than email.
Andy
Nonesense.. Have you ever herd of tarring up and gziping the file then email it. I never have that problem with Evolution. Your friend can also download 7zip for Windows to open it.
JohnStanley
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:
I recently emailed an important jpeg image to a colleague, but when he tried to insert it into a document it 'failed'. It appears that when jpegs are attached to messages, they become 'corrupted' - is this a known problem with evolution, and/or is there a way of solving the problem?
You should try asking on the Evolution mailing list, although they're up to 2.24.1 already and we're not going to see that in CentOS before 6.0, most likely.
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
mhr
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:
I recently emailed an important jpeg image to a colleague, but when he tried to insert it into a document it 'failed'. It appears that when jpegs are attached to messages, they become 'corrupted' - is this a known problem with evolution, and/or is there a way of solving the problem?
I used Evolution for years and attached a lot of .jpg images to emails and had them sent to me. Some, I used in a Web Site, where I use M$ FrontPage, without any problem. As others have replied, I don't think this is a problem with Evolution. Possibly something is awry with his box, or, the SW he is using?
I have seen, recently, if I email an image to or from gmail, to another email acount, there was one occasion where I could not open the file normally. Don't recall the exact details.
You might try emailing it to him at his alternate email address.
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