[CentOS] Emailing jpeg images with Evolution 2.8.0

Tue Dec 16 08:41:32 UTC 2008
Andrew Allen <andy.allen at virgin.net>

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