why doesn't the contact picture send when i send a vCard?

[Guest]

When we send vCards to eachother, the contact's picture never sends with the
vCard, it shows up blank with no photo.. Is there something we are supposed
to do so the picture can send?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

As far as I know, vCards don't support pictures.

 

[Brian Tillman]

When we send vCards to eachother, the contact's picture never sends
with the vCard, it shows up blank with no photo.. Is there something
we are supposed to do so the picture can send?

vCards are just text files and cannot include images.

 

[Guest]

The V-card standard supports images, but Outlook at this time doesn't
implement the part of the standard that allows images to be sent in v-cards.

If you receive a v-card with an image it will not display in outlook, and
the image you see in the contacts for outlook doesn't get added to the
v-card when it is made.

A v-cards is a plain text file, there is a PHOTO property for vcards that
can store the image data as binary, BASE64 or similar, but you need a program
outside of outlook to add or view vcard images..

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Just to add a little tidbit: Outlook 2007 will include support for sending a binary image as part of a vCard.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers