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

**tracy** · March 21st 06, 06:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts

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]** · March 21st 06, 07:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts

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

"tracy" wrote in message
...
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?

**Brian Tillman** · March 21st 06, 08:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts

tracy wrote:

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.
--
Brian Tillman

**Mark McCrea** · May 16th 06, 06:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts

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..

"tracy" wrote:

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?

**Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]** · May 16th 06, 07:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts

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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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Mark McCrea" wrote in message ...
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..

"tracy" wrote:

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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