[Fed-Talk] Address Book vCards vs Outlook
[Fed-Talk] Address Book vCards vs Outlook
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] Address Book vCards vs Outlook
- From: "Wm. Cerniuk" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:18:54 -0500
ALCON,
Just found that while the Address Book.app supports vCard standard
version 3.0, Outlook apparently does not. There are circumstances
when the outlook vcard parser encounters 3.0 data in a vCard and then
stops dead. To the outlook user, the 3.0 vCard you send will
sometimes (not always) just come up blank.
The workaround is to go into your preferences and set your format to
2.1. This will insure Outlook users can read the vCards you send.
This preference setting is really a 'output format' as Address
Book.app still maintains the same fields for your data in its
database. For the curious, you can drag a vCard into TextEdit to see
it's contents, it is text.
Ironically, when the Address Book.app first came out, Outlook
actually supported the vCard standard better than Apple did (and
Apple helped invent it!). Now the tables have apparently turned.
Very Respectfully,
Wm. Cerniuk
Wm. Cerniuk
Army PEOEIS/AKO
Technical Manager, Army Homepage
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