Windows users can't open my e-mail attachments

Just got my MacBook yesterday and I created some business cards using Pages. I want someone who uses Windows to be able to see them so I sent the Pages document as an attachment through Mail. They can get the e-mail and read the text of it, but they can't open the attachment. She said to try to send it as a .jpg or .gif but I have no idea how to do that.
Can anyone offer any advice?

You should try setting the attachments to be "windows friendly" in Mail. Edit > Attachments > Always Send Windows Friendly Attachments
There are more suggestions in this document, but I would do the windows friendly thing first: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/3.0/en/9965.html
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