- A raster graphic file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF). PNG files use the file extension
png
and are assigned the MIME media typeimage/png
. PNG was published as informational RFC 2083 in 1997, and as an ISO/IEC standard in 2004. ← Wikipedia
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