About PNG - Portable Network Graphics
PNG stands for portable network graphic. The links below offer file specifications, comparisons with other formats, advantages and disadvantages of using PNG, and lists of software programs that support this format.
A brief summary of the PNG format.
Find out which 3D applications offer support for the PNG format. Includes VRML, high-end modeling, and ray-tracing software.
Find out what browsers support which features of the PNG format.
Tips and workarounds for getting your PNG images to display properly in all Web browsers.
Find out what software supports the PNG format.
Find out what software supports the PNG format.
The starting point for all things PNG.
A command line optimizer for PNG files. Open source and free to use.
"SuperPNG is a free Adobe Photoshop plug-in for using PNG ("ping") files. It is faster than Adobe's own PNG plug-in and saves considerably smaller PNGs."
"This site contains a collection of comments, impressions, comparisons, experiments and ideas regarding the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file format, and related technologies: zlib (Data Compression Library), and MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics). It is focused especially on the compression algorithms used in PNG."
A very detailed and informative article on the PNG file format by Trevor Morris. "PNG is the only truecolor, lossless image format that is both cross-platform and application independent."
"The PNG format allows applications to embed gamma information to correct for variations in brightness (gamma) on different platforms. This is great news for graphic designers who want their images to look good regardless of where they're viewed; but ironically, it's also one of the obstacles preventing more universal adoption of the PNG format for the Web."
