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

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tracy - 21 Mar 2006 19:42 GMT

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?

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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 21 Mar 2006 20:15 GMT

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

> 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?

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Brian Tillman - 21 Mar 2006 21:05 GMT

> 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.

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Mark McCrea - 16 May 2006 18:41 GMT

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..

> 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?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 16 May 2006 19:02 GMT

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

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> 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.
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>> vCard, it shows up blank with no photo.. Is there something we are supposed
>> to do so the picture can send?

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