Attachments with TIGER Mail

[Rudolf O. Durrer]

My configuration: OSX 10.4.11 on a Mac Mini

I usually sent attachments (text, no picts) as pdf files, but I  
encounter two annoying problems:

1. Tiger Mail displays PDF Attachments as pdf's in the mail, but I  
would like to have icons. I know, that I can do that through the  
contextual menu, but would like to have that as standard. Anybody out  
there knows how to teach Mail a good behaviour?

2. Even more annoying: I "print" the text files (mostly Appleworks  
text editor files) to pdf's. That works so far fine, and the files on  
my computer show with a "PDF" icon. But when I attach them, they  
convert to jpeg files for beeing sent. The result: the adressee has a  
very small picture only, unable to read the text...
Whats going on here? Is that Mail.app or the printing, which is going  
wrong?

Thanks for hints
Rudolf