Germans and PDFs

why do they send photos as PDFs?

[microcars]

maybe 30% of the photos I receive in the USA from Germans are not JPGs, they are PDF format.

A German friend in the US says that maybe half the photos he gets from his German friends are PDF instead of JPG.

I've asked a few of the senders why this is so and have yet to receive any kind of response.

It's more an annoyance than a real problem, but does anyone have clue why Germans would be sending PDF format photos instead of JPG?

Is there some default setting in a German image management program that creates PDFs from their JPGs? Are they all using MS Publisher or something?

or perhaps it is a corporate culture thing where all documents that are emailed are to be PDF format?

[NameNick]

microcars,

I seems to me - a German - that my fellow citizen like to wrap their presents.

I often receive MS Word documents full of image files. It seems that they need some kind of container and use Word documents instead of Zip files.

In your case maybe they convert their Word files into PDF files to look more professional ;-)

Best regards

NN

[microcars]

Photo Deutschland Format.

Of course, ich bin ein Holzkopf!
/bangs head against the table...

the "wrapping" bit makes some sense, but I get single PHOTOS that are PDF format. =/

they are not in a WORD docs or anything. It's really odd.

[Dreamquick]

Could also be that lots of people learnt about the internet and email at work rather than at home, so they have been trained to attach PDF and Word documents but can't quite get their heads around the idea of "you can attach anything to an e-mail" so they go with what they know.

- Tony

[olwen]

I've seen scanned documents come through as PDFs. One man at my day job regularly gets these. In this case the PDF is enclosed in a zip file as well. He doesn't have WinZip of the like and sends them to me to unzip.

I think some office networked multi-function units (maybe Xerox) scan to PDF and email the output to the user.

[Mr Bo Jangles]

I think you might have something there Olwen - our new Panasonic office high-end copier scans to pdf.

....but I like the cute/quaint 'wrapping' explanation better *_*