Saving an Appleworks 6 Drawing as a JPEG

I want to save an Appleworks 6 Drawing document (Joe Bloggs) as a JPEG. When I do so (by the way, the menu calls it 'JPEG (QT) ) the icon that comes up on the desktop is called 'Joe Bloggs.O]'. But the icon is the normal JPG icon. And when I send it, the recipient says it's not a JPEG but a DOC.
Until today, recipients have had no complaints.
Help, please?

AppleWorks uses the QuickTime translators to convert draw & paint documents to other picture formats. Because AppleWorks just doesn't understand OS X extensions, you can get some strange results. The easiest thing to do is just save & then fix the extensions in the Finder.

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