scanning help

Hi,
Just got an Epson scanner from the Apple store. It has Epson scanning software included. I was easily able to scan a sheet and save it as a .jpg. Is that the best file type to save in? I want to be able to send items to my kids. Items such as recipes, etc from books and sheets.

I sent the .jpg to my wife who has a Dell. She has a hotmail address and the .jpg came out strange.

First I scanned in the recipe, saved it on my hard drive and attached it from there. Second time, I just used the software's e-mail program which basically allowed me to insert the sheet into the scanner and e-mail directly from there.

First time the sheet was so tiny you couldn't read it. Second time, it was mammoth. You could see only one huge line on the print.

I did manage to attach the .jpg from my hard drive and e-mail it to her Yahoo account. I was able to download and use the Windows Picture Viewer/Printer feature whatever to print out the sheet. It came out perfectly. What's with this. Is it the Epson software or just Microsoft's Hotmail?? Any suggestions. And my kids have PC's so e-mailing just to Mac's isn't an option
Thanks.
Frank

 

I did discover that I could save in .pdf format. I tried that and when I sent it to my wifes hotmail, it read it as having a virus. No kidding. Amazing. I sent the same file at the same time to her Yahoo account and it came through easily. I do agree that .pdf seems to be handled better in general. I'll use that. I know both kids have the capability to read .pdf files.
I agree too that there must be something with hotmail as to how it reads these files.

Thanks.

Frank